This is part II of Michael Feingold's latest "Thinking About Theater" column. Click here to read part I. Because such vast amounts of archival material are now online, with more arriving da…
This was going to be a silly-fun essay, a little light relief from the heavy stuff I was ruminating on last month. And then Julie Harris died. I don't mean that the event instantly plunged m…
This is part II of Michael Feingold's latest "Thinking About Theater" column. Click here to read part I. The implicit belief, on the management side of today's giant corporations, that the…
Lately, ominous signs suggest that "theater critic" may be disappearing as a job description. My own dismissal as a staff writer for The Village Voice at the end of May was framed on either …
This is part II of Michael Feingold's latest "Thinking About Theater" column. Click here to read part I. The recent revival of Sidney Howard's The Silver Cord supplies useful leverage for …
Along with the usual stream of new works, June brought New York a quartet of old plays, ranging from the unfamiliar to the utterly unknown. Three came from our loyal resurrectionist institut…
This is part II of Michael Feingold's first "Thinking About Theater" column. Click here to read part I. Amy Herzog's The Great God Pan, which opened at Playwrights Horizons back in Decembe…
This is the start of a new voyage for me, and the charts for this area of the ocean are somewhat vague, so my route may be a little meandering. I hope my fellow travelers will bear with me. …
Howe's delightful, disturbing, and ultimately moving 1983 play
Kathleen Marshall sails Cole Porter onto 43rd Street
The creators of Hairspray go direct to video with their new musical
The Transport Group takes a musical revival site-specific
Rajiv Joseph's powerful, ghost-ridden new drama earns its stripes