1,324 stories by "Charles McNulty"
Tony-winner Brian Dennehy stars in a double-bill of short works by Eugene O'Neill and Samuel Beckett
Brian Dennehy needs no coddling from critics. A two-time Tony-winning heavyweight, he has nothing left to prove, having triumphed (through the blunt force of his acting) in Eugene O'Neill's …
Review: 'Cost of Living': Martyna Majok's 2018 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama brings an unflinching realism about the disabled and their caregivers to the Fountain Theatre.
Two of the best productions this fall have happened at intimate theaters that are keeping up with the exciting developments in American playwriting. Earlier this season, Branden Jacobs-Jenki…
Tony-winner Jefferson Mays single-handedly populates "Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol" at the Geffen Playhouse
Charles Dickens has become so yawningly familiar through adaptations that it can be jolting to experience his storytelling genius directly from the fictional works themselves. No literary pr…
Luis Valdez's new play explores immigration and the reality of the American dream in a story set during World War II about two families, one of Japanese heritage, the other of Mexican.
"King Kong," the stage animal first seen wreaking havoc in Australia, has arrived on Broadway with a seismic thud and a thundering roar. Just how horrifying is the new show? It has turned a …
"King Kong," the stage animal first seen wreaking havoc in Australia, has arrived on Broadway with a seismic thud and a thundering roar.
NEW YORK " The setting is uncertain in the opening moments of "American Son," an acutely topical new Broadway drama by Christopher Demos-Brown. But it is clear from the intense performance b…
In 'American Son,' a raw Kerry Washington returns to Broadway as an anguished mother seeking answers from the police about her missing son . It's a painfully topical, if imperfect, drama
obituary/appreciation of playwright Maria Irene Fornes
MarÃa Irene Fornés, a pivotal figure in the off-off Broadway movement, wrote diverse and profoundly humane plays that should be part of the American canon.
'Quack,' Eliza Clark's comedy having its world premiere at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, takes the temperature of the feverish wellness industry.
"Quack," the lively, irritating and ultimately chilling new comedy by Eliza Clark about a TV medical guru in the mode of Dr. Oz, skips the introductory pleasantries and plunges straight into…
Qui Nguyen's touted drama about refugees who fall in love in 1970s America after fleeing the Vietnam war, arrives in Los Angeles in an East West Players production
Reencountering Qui Nguyen's "Vietgone" in the new East West Players production, I am struck once again by the originality of the playwriting. A quick synopsis of the play might yield the fol…
Political pundits have long been giving drama critics a bad name. Inevitably, in the run-up to an election, some op-ed columnist will make a crack comparing recent political coverage to thea…
A critic's plan to rescue democracy, reclaim the power of theater and cast young artists as the leads in an extravaganza that turns voting into an act of performance.
Political pundits have long been giving drama critics a bad name. Inevitably, in the run-up to an election, some op-ed columnist will make a crack comparing recent political coverage to thea…
There are many reasons "Dear Evan Hansen," the Tony-winning musical that more than lived up to expectations at its glorious opening Friday at the Ahmanson Theatre, has become a cultural phen…
'Dear Evan Hansen,' the Tony-winning musical about a high school outcast who become a hero under false pretenses, arrives at the Ahmanson Theatre with Ben Levi Ross in the title role
The critically acclaimed play by Nigerian playwright and poet Inua Ellams leaps from a barbershop in London to Johannesburg, Harare, Kampala, Lagos and Accra, exploring the African immigrati…
"Barber Shop Chronicles" takes place in a series of barbershops, where men of African heritage gather for fellowship along with a trim in African countries still traumatized by colonialism o…
Jackie Sibblies Drury's drama, which riveted and riled New York audiences this summer at Soho Rep, sparks difficult conversations about race at Berkeley Rep.
