George Bernard Shaw knew that the rich are no better than the poor. But though the argument seemed settled then, it now rages more fiercely than everIf you know Alfred Doolittle only from St…
The radical playwright imagined a utopia ruled by a great leader who embodied Russia's soul.
Broadway has long known how to take real people and turn them into two-dimensional cartoons. Julie Taymor has done it the other way round.
IMAGINE A radical new production of The Playboy of the Western World. The director decides that some of the critics of the play in 1907 were right after all. They maintained that Synge was a…