1,324 stories by "Charles McNulty"
Of the 10 Tony Award nominees in the lead actor and actress categories for drama, five are English. We look at what the Brits have brought to Broadway stages over the past season, and why th…
This year, the discussion around the Academy Awards was all about the unbearable whiteness of being an acting nominee. The Tony Awards can hardly brag about diversity. It's never a good sign…
Time veils the past in mystery for everyone, but theater artist Lars Jan's case is exceptional. His late father, an enigmatic Polish-born Cold War operative, remains an elusive figure despit…
Deaf West Theatre has a way of reimagining musicals. The company's practice of assigning certain roles to two actors, one singing, the other signing, opens the art form up to deaf performers…
The musical theater stalwart casts herself as the victim and opens old wounds in recounting her life and career.
Dramatic adaptations of Fyodor Dostoevsky's work should carry a warning to audiences that the characters and situations they're about to encounter are likely to be disturbing in the extreme.…
Louisville's Marc Masterson will be taking over at the playwright-friendly venue, and he can't go wrong following these suggestions.
'The King's Speech' gives voice to a mature view of the affliction and those who struggle with it.
Before moving to L.A., I was on the faculty of Brooklyn College's MFA program in theater. If I were still there, I'd make "Just Kids" required reading.
Not a banner year by any stretch, but good work will always out. This year, the advantage fell decidedly to directors who weren't afraid to let their artistry show.
There's a perky ray of sunshine with gawky eyeglasses and a cautious smile brightening this agreeable adaptation from the Tony-winning team of James Lapine and William Finn (whose collaborat…
As anyone who caught “The Pain and the Itch” at the Theatre @ Boston Court a couple of seasons back can verify, Bruce Norris doesn't write plays to win popularity contests.
Tarell Alvin McCraney, the prodigiously talented author of "The Brother/Sister Plays," has called August Wilson a mentor, though Wilson's stylistic influence hasn't been conspicuous.
Emily, the hands-on owner of a construction firm in Adam Bock's "A Small Fire," is never more at home than when barking orders to her workers at a building site.
Sometimes a musical finds its ideal home away from home.
Phylicia Rashad-directed 'Immediate Family' is often touching, amusing and means to do some good; review
Vera, the old Greenwich Village lefty with bad hearing and some trouble remembering words, was the main attraction of "4000 Miles," Amy Herzog's critically acclaimed drama about progressive …
The Tony Awards are a time for taking stock, but let's not put an undue burden on this year's nominations. To sort out the enigma of the 2014-15 Broadway season would require dusting off Ala…
One of the unrecognized ironies of the whole Actors' Equity brouhaha is that the union representing actors seems to understand better than most that the Los Angeles theater scene cannot rema…
Spoiler alert: The title character of Rajiv Joseph's new play, "Mr. Wolf," kills himself after the first scene. This would preclude him from serving as the play's protagonist, but it doesn't…
Last year marked the 100th anniversary of the start of World War I " a hellish anniversary, to be sure, but one that couldn't go unmarked. Observe how the geopolitical consequences of that c…
Anna Deavere Smith, whose documentary theater offerings have investigated the Rodney King riots ("Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992") and the crisis in U.S. healthcare ("Let Me Down Easy"), among …
Critic's Notebook on the Broadway revivals of 'The Heidi Chronicles' and 'Skylight,' -- in which Elisabeth Moss and Carey Mulligan make politics personal
There's a moment in the new Broadway revival of Wendy Wasserstein's "The Heidi Chronicles" when Heidi, the art historian holding fast to her liberated ideals while wrestling with loneliness,…
An appreciation of theatrical trailblazer Judith Malina
