1,545 stories by "David Finkle"
London--Perhaps it has everything to do with what you choose to see, but right now in London there's a strong sense of déjà vu--a...
As popular as P. G. Wodehouse and his creations, suave manservant Jeeves and first-prize twit Bertie Wooster, have been for almost 100 years, they've apparently never toddled onto a West End…
Samuel Beckett wanted his plays done exactly as he wrote them and as he particularized them in his stage directions. Don't think of adding even a second tree, for instance, to the Waiting fo…
Claudia Roth Pierpont's "Roth Unbound" tells his story and stories.
Two-time Tony winner Mark Rylance is stage-obsessed. He's so taken with all aspects of the theater that he has the Shakespeare's Globe Productions company he's leading get into costume in fr…
In Beth Henley's quasi-Southern Gothic play The Jacksonian, the establishment of the title is a Jackson, Mississippi motel...
We may never know what Hilary Clinton was thinking during the 1998 Monica Lewinsky episode or how Silda Wall Spitzer was reacting when Eliot Spitzer strayed or whether Huma Abedin was severe…
Why go on about the spectacular After Midnight, other than to say that for pure entertainment it comes as near being...
If you know William Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream and Julie Taymor's several publicity-nabbing productions--many
Three plays currently running delve deeply into Jewish anxieties.
Something Mike Nichols chose to do when directing the final moments of Harold Pinter's Betrayal--now at the Ethel...
Musicals have dealt with incarceration (Kiss of the Spider Woman), hanging (Parade) and murder (Sweeney Todd,...
The thing I'm bursting to tell you immediately about Two Boys, the Nico Muhly-Craig Lucas opera at the Metropolitan...
Several years before JC Lee's stinging play Luce, at the Claire Tow, begins, Amy (Marin Hinkle) and Peter (Neal Huff) adopted a...
Charlotte Moore as artistic director and Ciarán O'Reilly as producing director at the Irish Repertory Theatre form one of...
When in 1956 John Osborne's Look Back in Anger shook up the London theater--and much of the rest of the English-speaking...
It's beginning to look as if every 10 years or so--and no matter what the weather or geopolitical situation is--we can count on...
Depending on when you see--or have seen--The Model Apartment, you will either think playwright Donald Margulies has...
About the 1937 Room Service, now revived at the Westport Country Playhouse, I'm tempted to say things like "They don't write...
Looking over the relatively lighter crowd coursing into the first revival of Benjamin Britten's Midsummer Night's...
Tony Danza on stage--or anywhere, for that matter--is just about impossible to dislike. This contemporary show-biz given is both a boon and a problem for Honeymoon in Vegas.
Comparisons may be odious, but in some cases, like this one, they're inevitable. Whenever performers--such...
Does a week go by without a newspaper report somewhere on the subject of prisoners staging a Shakespeare play as part of...
Sometime in the winter of 1958, I had the chance to hear Billie Holiday on her closing night at Boston's venerated Storyville. For reasons I can't recall, I chose not to go. She died less …
Jon Robin Baitz is the rare example of a playwright whose every play--with possibly one or two exceptions--is even better than...
