572 stories by "Howard Miller"
There is nothing less calming for a seaman than to be trapped aboard a becalmed sailing vessel.
"Everything is subject to interpretation," says one of the characters in Oren Safdie's Unseamly at Urban Stages, a play that is as hot as the headlines about last week's bankruptcy filing by…
Gender-bending productions of Shakespeare are neither new nor gasp-inducing.
Halloween is a month away, but if you are itching for a bit of that spooky, scary stuff now, you would do well to spend an evening with Pipeline Theatre Company's production of Andrew Farmer…
Among American playwrights, you'd hardly call Arthur Richman (1886-1944) a household name. But even if his name doesn't strike a bell, a certain level of immortality has definitely attached …
If you are unfamiliar with the confrontational plays of Thomas Bradshaw, be advised that he is known for happily jumping without a parachute into graphic depictions of sex and violence.
A word to the wise: Take a good look at the girl in the photo that accompanies this review. Should you see her approaching on her My Little Pony bicycle, you would be well advised to turn ar…
It's spy vs. spy vs. spy in Victor Lesniewski's riveting Civil War drama Couriers and Contrabands at TBG Theatre, where friend cannot be distinguished from foe, and where the outcome of batt…
To enter into the world of playwright Richard Maxwell is to forego any expectation of straightforward clarity, richly realized characterizations, or emotional connection.
Some artists are so original, so unique, that anyone attempting to use their work as a model for their own runs the risk of producing a cheap imitation or of falling into unintended parody.
The time-honored art of theatrical storytelling is in excellent hands in the Fishamble: The New Play Company production of Little Thing, Big Thing, part of the 1st Irish Festival at 59E59 Th…
The Hutu and Tutsi people of Rwanda have been so thoroughly, so carefully taught to hate and fear each other that in a 100 day-period in 1994, some 800,000 Tutsis were slaughtered in a genoc…
A small plaque at the entrance to the Bethnal Green underground station in London commemorates the event: "Site of the worst civilian disaster of the Second World War."
Playwright Lisa Lewis's Schooled, one of the entries in the New York International Fringe Festival, takes on the cutthroat world of filmdom with caustic wit and a genuine feel for the lives …
Imagine Our Town as seen through the eyes of Stephen King, and you'll have a pretty good picture of what to expect from Canadian playwright Kevin Kerr's Unity (1918), having its U.S. premier…
A man who feels trapped in a life without meaning, a sexual encounter between an ex-teacher and her former high school student/lover, and a young writer who is the pen pal of the late North …
Howard Miller takes a look at Summer Shorts 2015, Series A
When it comes to the battle of the sexes, forget the Mars/Venus analogy.
There is much that could be said about the risks inherent in the casual drug use and unbridled sex that fill the days and nights of the disaffected students at the Upper East Side prep schoo…
When you have just directed a play that features a murderess attempting to have sex with a man she has just decapitated, what do you do for an encore? . . .
Death, lust, violence, and power are not exactly the typical fare of summer theater, but you'll find all of these in great abundance in the double bill of one-acts being offered up by PTP/NY…
This production shows us that Happy Days is most decidedly a play for our time.
Who would have thought you could mine gold from not playing the role of King Lear, itself that most golden of roles for Shakespearean actors of a certain age and stature?
"This is a play about time," insists the heart-sore and regretful Peter, who longs to reverse the past two decades of his life in The Barrow Group's production of Craig Wright's The Pavilion
You probably know someone like Gordy, the title character in playwright Sam Byron's Gordy Crashes, the inaugural production of Ricochet Collective now on view at IRT Theater.
