51 stories by "Helen Eisenbach"
Gina Gionfriddo's thrilling revival of 'Becky Shaw' and Bubba Weiler's promising 'Well, I'll Let You Go' offer a lesson in how to make magic
Reminiscences of a too-brief friendship
Calling All Strangers: Two Live Works Bring Hilarity & Communion
Helen Eisenbach
March 9, 2026 - 10:56
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Calling All Strangers: Two Live Works Bring Hilarity & Communion
Helen Eisenbach
March 9, 2026 - 10:56
Topics
Theater Review
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Two new live works show what happens when innovative artists expand the conventions of performance
Actor Holland Taylor talks politics, art and acting in a profile on the eve of PBS' Great Performances broadcast of her Tony-nominated play "Ann"
When someone told me Larry Kramer had died, the words were nonsense to my ears; they simply did not compute. The Larry I knew wasn't capable of being felled by anything, including death"he w…
The hidden cost of bias toward female-themed works is bared in a male reviewer's inability to take seriously the female-centered "After the Wedding"
An interview with "Mary Jane"'s buzzy theater director Anne Kauffman
Paula Vogel’s “Indecent” is many things: an idiosyncratic mix of music, memory and theater magic; a female take on an infamous male intellectual; a Holocaust parable that m…
Any progress we make, to me, is fleeting because underneath it there's the smoldering coal about to break out in conflagration of a hatred of women.
(Ezra LeBank, Cynthia Price & Taylor Casas )
Flight
20th New York International Fringe Festival Encore Series
Barrow Street Theatre, NYC
September 24-30, 2016
A quest…
Happy Lucky Golden Tofu Panda Dragon Good Time Fun Fun Show
20th New York International Fringe Festival
DROM, NYC
August 21 & 22, 2016
"Welcome to the dress rehearsal/…
1. What does the phrase "protect and serve" mean to you?
2. Are you comfortable shooting a gun?
3. Do you consider people who don't look like you to be human beings?
4. Define the …
Drew Hodges is at a loss for words. Asked if he’s surprised at the life he’s leading -- did he imagine he’d grow up to fly around the world orchestrating scenes with great …
You may not know Drew Hodges' name, but you're living in a world he helped create. His new book, On Broadway, is an irresistible adventure that lifts the curtain on the making of the best an…
What are we to do when the private persona of a performer bleeds over into the public creative sphere? The line is so fragile...
I'd call Memories of the Revolution "invaluable" -- if only that word conveyed how exhilarating it is to read this new book, the inside story of the women's theater corps that infi…
Stealth national treasure Holland Taylor sparked headlines recently with a declaration about her love life she was surprised to find people considered news. The 72-year-old Emmy winner and T…
The weather was too beautiful, so Judith Owen was depressed. The Welsh singer-songwriter was living in Southern California with...
Even those who tremble at the phrase "audience participation" end up awash in the bliss of communal exhibitionism -- some even clutching one of the special prizes doled out by ring…
Fraught family dynamics enliven The Hummingbird's Tour, a decidedly Southern comedy in which three very different siblings confront their own mortality -- and that of their beloved childhood…
The star of David Lindsay-Abaire's new play Ripcord opens up about her long career, where she gets her nerve and the "corruption and ruin of being a politician in America."
The new film Grandma tells a story rare for American cinema: a lesbian of advanced years (Lily Tomlin), in mourning for her soul mate and on skittish footing with the much younger woman she'…
Amy Schumer's Trainwreck introduces us to a new kind of mainstream film heroine: blunt, thoughtless, more interested in being gratified than likable, one whose boundless appetites are played…
