1,545 stories by "David Finkle"
I've been accused of kindness many more times than I care to enumerate.
Londoners " or those willing to cross the pond " have plenty of must-see plays on their plates, ranging from new takes on Shakespeare and Ibsen to new works about Shakespearean actors and mo…
It's likely that audiences exiting the Metropolitan Opera after Robert Lepage's eye-popping production of
The Tempest, based on Shakespeare's great drama, will be in a state of uncertainty …
What is/are The Crazy Coqs? They is a new cabaret room, and in these parlous times when it's more usually reported that an intimate boite is shuttering, the fact that one has opened is a cau…
Although I've been reading and reviewing books for several decades, not until Salman Rushdie's memoir, <em>Joseph Anton</em>, have I realized how some part of me continues to loo…
No production of Cyrano de Bergerac is worth a minute of anyone's time unless the title character is portrayed by a top-drawer actor. Fortunately, "bravura" barely begins to describe Tony Aw…
British playwright Simon Stephens has written several striking plays, but Harper Regan, now making its American debut at Atlantic Theater Company under the direction of Gaye Taylor Upchurc…
Although there are some troublesome aspects to Daisy Foote's
Him, now being presented by Primary Stages at 59E59 Theaters, too much about the author's new work about a dysfunctional Tremont…
Any piece of theater in which one human after another turns into a thundering African mammal inherently requires as much theatricality as a director can lavish, and that's exactly what Emman…
Craig Wright obviously has a potent thing against organized religion of any variety, but with Grace, now making its Broadway bow at the Cort Theatre under Dexter Bullard's committed directio…
In Jeffrey Hatcher's unruly, though not unrewarding, Ten Chimneys, now at Theatre at St. Clement's, the playwright examines an unconventional marriage for the glue holding it together. This…
Although Hamlet still doesn't take revenge on his murdered father until the corpse-strewn final scene, nobody will ever accuse this title figure of being slow to act in the Shakespeare's Glo…
Brian Friel isn't completely convinced love is a forever thing. As proved by the entertaining revival of Lovers presented by TACT at the Beckett Theatre, Friel lets audiences know how uncert…
An Enemy of the People, Henrik Ibsen's 1882 play-with-a-cause, isn't unfurled very often, which definitely makes Doug Hughes' thoroughly competent Manhattan Theatre Club revival at the Samue…
The singing was so strong and supple throughout the Metropolitan Opera 's opening night production of Gaetano Donizetti's
L'Elisir d'Amore that the traditional look of Tony Award-winning di…
At four-and-a-half-hours-long,
Einstein on the Beach " the famed Robert Wilson-Philip Glass project now being revived at BAM Howard Gilman Opera House "adds up to slightly less than the sum…
The intrigue and dark beauty of Mary Broome, Alan Monkhouse's 1911 drawing-room drama being revived under Jonathan Bank's astute direction at the Mint Theatre " stems from how creatively the…
Chad Begeulin's play about a gay couple at odds over adopting a baby is touching and well-acted.
Sam Shepard's obscure new play deals with five wacky people in a house in California.
For Gore Vidal's memorial at the Schoenfeld Theater on Thursday, August 23, a photograph of the playwright-novelist-essayist was placed against the American flag. Not surprisingly, it …
Primary Stages offers an expertly acted trio of Horton Foote's affecting one-act plays.
Neil Simon's 1963 comedy gets a charming revival at the recently reopened Bucks County Playhouse.
Ron Cephas Jones leads an excellent cast in the Public Theater's speedily-performed and effective production of Shakespeare's play.
This entertaining trio of short works by Paul Rudnick, Sean Hartley & Sam Davis, and Neil Labute have a high silliness quotient.
Some starry new cast members, including John Stamos, Cybill Shepherd, and Kristin Davis, more-than-effectively step into this timely revival of Gore Vidal's political drama.
