67 stories by "Jill Dolan"
The Tony Awards season confirms what anyone concerned about the status of women in the arts has long come to expect: plays by women are excluded from the nominations once again. When will …
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Lindsay-Abaire's Good People offers a compelling, if liberal, view of race, class, and gender relations in contemporary Boston. The Broadway producti…
This very smart play presents a conundrum of ideas and feelings which, happily, it refuses to sort out in any complete or resolved way. Part of playwright Madeleine George's point is to sug…
Bathsheba Doran's lovely new play is a meditation on community and the unlikely ways in which it forms and dissolves across time. With a light touch and moving, smart insights, Doran paints…
Caryl Churchill's 1983 play, Fen, represents the British feminist playwright at her best, even though the play is rarely produced. In this revival at London's Finborough Theatre, director R…
When I heard that Keira Knightley and Elisabeth Moss would star in a revival of Lillian Hellman's classic realist play The Children's Hour in London this spring, my first thought was, "Why n…
Every year, I settle in to watch the Academy Awards show, and every year, I come away disappointed. Last night's show promised something a little different"young co-hosts Anne Hathaway and …
Austin Pendleton directs Paul Schmidt's translation of Chekhov's play with verve and surprising wit, giving the play a hint of contemporary relevance while maintaining a light touch over the…
I missed the Public's production of Merchant in the Park last summer, and so was happy for an unexpected chance to see it last weekend on Broadway. I'd heard various responses to Al Pacino …
This production, by Dublin's Abbey Theatre, of one of Ibsen's last plays, is beautiful from top to bottom, but the set and the performances far outweigh the text itself. The play is a pot-b…
Perhaps the most amazing aspect of Sarah Treem's terrific new play, in a beautiful production directed by Emily Mann at the McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, is that it's a two-hander fo…
This elegiac evening with Peggy Shaw, Lois Weaver, and musician Vivian Stoll is a beautiful meditation on change, loss, and aging, delivered as a Sid Caesar/Imogene Coco- or Mike Nichols/Ela…
Jomama Jones: Radiate, an incomparable performance art/concert created by singer-lyricist-performer-playwright Daniel Alexander Jones, is the first downtown theatre must-see experience of 2…
Although it takes a moment or two to pick up speed, Adam Bock's play at Playwrights Horizons gathers momentum as it hurtles toward a conclusion that might have left me bereft but instead is …
The second half of the Angels revival at the Signature Theatre at proved as satisfying as the first, if not more so, since the story deepens and expands as the play breathes into its ideas a…
I'm often still surprised by my own gullibility. My faith in performance (and film and television"in representation, really) means that I'm eager to see a broad swath of cultural production…
I'd heard mixed things about this production, since people had such strong attachments to the original Broadway version directed by George C. Wolfe, starring Stephen Spinella as Prior and Jo…
