193 stories by "Diane Snyder"
Margaret Edson's playwriting career consists of just one work. But what a miraculous endeavor Wit is. The winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize, it's a carefully crafted, minimalist study of an …
The Roundabout Theatre Company has dug up a gem from 1984, The Road to Mecca, which richly explores the lives of three lonely characters caught between fear and the path to fulfillment. Gord…
The saga of former New York Times reporter Jayson Blair gets dramatic treatment from one of his former colleagues, Gabe McKinley, whose latest play, CQ/CX, is on the boards courtesy of the A…
Writer-director (and Pittsburgh native) Robert Cucuzza plucks August Strindberg's Miss Julie from the "classic" stage and drops it back into the experimental-theater arena, where it began, w…
Alan Jay Lerner once vowed he'd never write another original musical. His greatest successes"notably the book and lyrics of My Fair Lady"had come from adapting stories created by others. But…
The end of the year also ushers in the end of the annual Brits Off Broadway series, which had me making repeated trips to 59E59 for Neighbourhood Watch, an enjoyable new comedy by Alan Ayckb…
Cititour.com is a nifty little website that's kept me off the streets the last few years by giving me the opportunity to review some of Broadway's seasonal offerings. This fall's harvest has…
Alan Rickman, the steely British actor who snarled his way through the Harry Potter films as Professor Snape takes on his new role with "delicious ferocity."
Carla Ching sets Hansel and Gretel adrift in NYC in her evocatively titled The Sugar House at the Edge of the Wilderness, a darkly enchanting fairy tale, from Ma-Yi Theater, that unfortunat…
"... a dazzling, eclectic, high-energy song-and-dance fest that demonstrates why Jackman live is only slightly less addictive than cocaine."
Steven Boyer delivers a deliciously attuned performance as a shy teenager and the devil puppet who comes to control him in Hand of God, a new, and uneven, play by Ensemble Studio Theatre Yo…
A.R. Gurney's 1974 play Children takes place on an island off the coast of Massachusetts, and under the auspices of the sure-handed TACT, it's aged quite well.
Audiences are being lured to The Mountaintop by the star wattage of Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett in a play about the last night of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s life. But Katori Hall…
My first journalism job was at Back Stage, which asked current and former colleagues for reminiscences for its 50th anniversary. Mine--about halfway down the page--involves Jane Alexander, …
I had never heard a newspaper's front-page story referred to as "the wood," until Time Out assigned me to review a play with just such a title. The Wood is described as a "no-holds-barred" a…
There's no sating Broadway's appetite for Stephen Sondheim. In the last five years alone we've seen revivals of A Little Night Music, Sunday in the Park With George, Company, West Side Story…
Leave it to the New York Neo-Futurists--with a just little help from Eugene O'Neill-- to turn stage directions into an engaging evening of theater, with a title that's nearly as long as the…
The Off-Off Broadway theater company Partial Comfort Productions scored a slew of accolades last year with A Bright New Boise, a play that was more solid and satisfying than many produced by…
It was good to see Christopher Durang and Neil LaBute in fine form in the first installment of Summer Shorts 5--although they were the longest bunch of shorts I've ever seen at the annual e…
Sheila Schwartz's overly talky drama about three notorious political figures benefits from colorful performances and an excellent multimedia design.
Sheila Schwartz's overly talky drama about three notorious political figures benefits from colorful performances and an excellent multimedia design.
The talented playwright discusses her new biodrama at the Public Theater about a writer's obsession with Anne Frank.
The talented playwright discusses her new biodrama at the Public Theater about a writer's obsession with Anne Frank.
This stark, tense, and brilliantly acted deconstruction of Nicholas Ray's film Bigger Than Life is a provocative evening of experimental theater.
The acclaimed actor discusses working on Broadway's The Merchant of Venice and his upcoming film projects.
