572 stories by "Howard Miller"
Two teenage girls " one black, one white " meet while serving time in prison and immediately become one another's kindred soulmate in Naomi Wallace's intimate yet expansive And I And Silence…
A pair of red boxing gloves may hold the key for solidifying Kari Floren's sketchy play Voices of Swords, a work still struggling to find a clear voice in that hazy netherworld that lies som…
One of the most difficult things for a playwright to do successfully is to adapt a work of fiction so that it remains faithful to the original while becoming a satisfying theatrical experien…
Amidst the continuing battle over reproductive rights, the fight for equal pay and respect for women in the workplace, and Rush Limbaugh's diatribes against "feminazis," it is pretty evident…
Fans of classic romantic screwball comedy films like Preston Sturges's The Lady Eve are well advised to make their way to The Flea Theater for the Attic Theater Company's first-rate revival …
The one good reason to see Propaganda! The Musical, an entry in the New York Musical Theatre Festival, is to catch the rising star performance by Dale Sampson as a befuddled young man who fi…
Eddie and the Palaceades, the self-proclaimed "corny and square" musical now on view at the June Havoc Theatre as part of the Midtown International Theatre Festival, taps into the yearning o…
Gertrude " The Cry, Howard Barker's 2002 cerebral/visceral take on Shakespeare's Hamlet, opens with an eye-searing bang....
Sometimes playwrights just have a lot to say, and they insist on saying it all in a single work.
If you are looking to introduce your preschooler to musical theater, one surefire option is Rescue Rue, a sweet little show about a pup's journey from abandonment to finding her "furever hom…
Cloned!, one of the entries in the New York Musical Theatre Festival, is a rollicking musical comedy filled with screwball characters ...
Religion is complicated.
What is your favored anxiety-driven end-of-world scenario?
There may come a time when The Laramie Project, the widely-produced docudrama about the events surrounding the brutal murder of Matthew Shepard 15 years ago, will seem dated and irrelevant.
With messages about corporate greed, the plight of the working poor, the unequal treatment of women in the workplace, and the often mutually exclusive concepts of "the law" and "justice," it…
Mein Uncle, the impressive first full-length (90 minutes) production by 3 Voices Theatre, penned and directed by one of the company's founding members Aliza Shane, bills itself as an "absurd…
The Merchant of Venice is one of Shakespeare's more challenging plays to parse or to present.
Newcomer playwright Albert J. Repicci's Honor Bound, now on view at St. Luke's Theatre, raises important ideas about trust, friendship, and " of course " honor, but it does tend to lose its …
A whisper of Tennessee Williams floats through the Peccadillo Theater Company's polished revival of A Loss of Roses, one of playwright William Inge's lesser known works, now on view at the T…
There certainly has been a bumper crop of King Lear performances this year, with two major productions behind us (one starring Frank Langella, the second with Michael Pennington), and anothe…
"Write what you know" is an axiom that is hammered into every writer's head.
Long, long ago, way back in the 1960s, in the days before Twitter and Facebook and Skype, people used to carry on long-distance relationships through the now nearly lost medium of letter wri…
Playwright Tom Stoppard has long had an interest in examining the impact and consequences of the iron-fisted rule by the Communist Party in his native Czechoslovakia.
Imagine yourself going to a concert by a gifted pianist, only to discover that the entire evening is devoted to a series of études.
Here's a bit of free advice to Robb Nanus, producer of Ryann Weir's comedy Debutante, now on view at the Bernie Wohl Center. Seek corporate sponsorship from a fitness club ...
