572 stories by "Howard Miller"
If you think of "the troubles" in Ireland and the nationalistic, ethnic, and religious strife that rocked that part of the world as strictly a late twentieth century phenomenon, you may be d…
Many years before Joseph "the Elephant Man" Merrick was hauled around London to be gawked at as the "freak du jour," a young black South African woman named Saartjie Baartman was lured from …
"Imagination + Structure = Art." With these words scrawled on a whiteboard, an instructor kicks off the first session of a writing workshop in the premiere production of Lawrence Dial's natu…
When we first encounter the tough-as-nails Effie in Gary Owen's sizzling monologue of a play, Iphigenia In Splott, she is scrunched over in a chair, half-buried in a hoodie.
An exhausted and out-of-work 40-something single mother of an infant son finds her strength and courage in the spirited, romantic, and altogether charming pop and rock musical Ernest Shackle…
Anyone entering the universe of Paul Zindel's bitterly dark comedy, And Miss Reardon Drinks A Little, would do well do heed the famous quote uttered by Bette Davis in the film All About Eve:…
Be warned before entering the world of the Axis Theatre Company and its artistic director Randy Sharp. They have a penchant for asking us to stare unblinkingly into some of life's darkest co…
Not all resurrected and dusted-off plays from yesteryear reveal themselves to be glittering lost diamonds.
It is difficult to know whether Wink, Neil Koenigsberg's play about a surprising friendship between a homeless teen and a middle-aged former Oscar winning movie star, is intended to be a hea…
What becomes of the designated "losers" from high school when they enter into their twenties as rudderless and adrift as they were back in the day?
"Is death a bad thing?" asks one of the characters in Judson Blake's ambitious if rambling dystopian satire Perversion, now at the 13th Street Repertory Theater. Answer: It depends on who's …
It's tempting to refer to Adam Szymkowicz's new play Rare Birds by another name, perhaps "Dear Evan Wills."
With the premiere of Dolphins and Sharks at the Labyrinth Theater Company, the professional debut of playwright James Anthony Tyler is an impressive one indeed.
It's a bumpy carnival ride, that strange time between adolescence and young adulthood.
A self-proclaimed king, attended to by a single subject, has not stepped away from his throne for 11 years.
If the names Bobby Seale, the Berrigan brothers, the Catonsville Nine, the Chicago Seven, Abbie Hoffman, and Jerry Rubin stir up memories and make your heart thump just a little faster, then…
A xenophobic assault on immigrants and a forbidden inter-religious love story make the Metropolitan Playhouse's revival of Augustin Daly's 19th century melodrama Leah, the Forsaken as timely…
It can be quite disconcerting to view a work by the experimental playwright/director Richard Maxwell, so before heading out to see the revival of his 2004 play Good Samaritans at the Abrons …
If you are a devotee of William Shakespeare and are interested in what was being written by his contemporaries, you are sure to be intrigued by the rare opportunity to see what is a thorough…
It is understandable that everyone in Sarah Levine Simon and Mihai Grunfeld's touching new play The Dressmaker's Secret, having its premiere production at 59E59 Theaters, would hold their ca…
The plays of Robert Holman are not widely produced outside his native England, but at home he is known as a prolific creator of quirky and enigmatic works about quirky and enigmatic characte…
The experimental acting company Medicine Show Theatre Ensemble is paying homage to its late co-founder Barbara Vann with a ramshackle revival of Bound to Rise, a satiric "rags-to-riches" mus…
When is it appropriate for our government officials to hide information from the public?
If President-elect Trump is still interested in "draining the swamp," he might want to start with that particular part of the Florida Everglades that is the setting for Hilary Bettis's gutpu…
"Thank you for your service" can be an honest expression of gratitude for members of the military.
