Since the revision of his 'The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,' the monologuist says it's played some part in bettering conditions in China.Is the ecstasy and agony of Mike Daisey final…
Photo by Ursa Waz One little-remembered wrinkle in the chronology of last year's Mike Daisey scandal is that, between the time he appeared in January on This American Life to talk about bru…
Dizzia and Keller in Cradle and All (photo by Joan Marcus) Maria Dizzia and Greg Keller aren't a couple in real life, but the current New York Theatre Workshop production …
Maria Dizzia and Greg Keller, the leads of Amy Herzog's drama "Belleville," are used to playing a couple together, though they aren't one offstage.
Burstein at the 2012 Tonys, performing "Buddy's Blues" from Follies I first spoke to the extraordinary, multifaceted actor Danny Burstein for a TDF story back in 2008, wh…
Danny Burstein, a self-described "working stiff," takes on the lead role in "Talley's Folly," showing he is a go-to actor for dramas as well as musicals.
Theater-related blogging has been light here, I'll confess. That's because whatever bloggy energies I have have been redirected to my music blog, where I've been revisiting formative albums …
Loved this anecdote from Julie Crosby, artistic director of the Women's Project: At a recent performance of Bethany (which, by the way, I can't recommend highly enough, as much for the taut,…
Finally caught the Broadway folk phenom Once last night, and I liked it, but what impressed me most was the endearing fragility and directness of its sound; there are some well-chosen reverb…
Željko LuÄić in Rigoletto Years ago, when I first arrived in New York, I was up for an editorial position at the fine Met-produced magazine Opera News. I was in the running but it…
Photo by Carol Rosegg I've been mostly knocked on my ass by the New York flu since my Ed Wood musical reading last week, but I managed to file this piece for Time Out before t…
Coming out the gate into 2013 a little buried under deadlines, not least for next week's staged reading of The Passion of Ed Wood, my long-gestating musical with Justin Warner (deets here). …
(photo by Scott Landis) Incredibly busy at the moment, but I'll take a moment to point you to my latest review, of a particularly high-profile Broadway property:There's a classic bit of advi…
If Lincoln improves upon reflection, it is partly because it inspires reflection at all. That may sound like a low bar"there are plenty of subpar entertainments that may get stuck in our hea…
Katori Hall recently gave the keynote at TCG's recent Fall Forum, which I didn't get a chance to attend, so I'm glad to see that the speech is now up on the TCG blog. It's worth listening t…
Hartmere and Intrabartolo (photo by Linda Lenzi) In 2000, a scrappy little rock musical"sorry, "pop opera""called Bare became a sensation in the confines of Hollywood's Hudson Theater, the …
A revised version of the 2000 musical "Bare," about teenagers wrestling with religion and sexuality, is getting a new Off Broadway revival at New World Stages.
From the sleep-deprived depths of daddy leave, I come to you with a ticket giveaway offer: two tickets to Lincoln Center's revival of Clifford Odets' boxing drama Golden Boy, which will star…
C Lavrov and Sasha K Tuzova in an illustration from TEATP Writing a feature on CSC's new production of Ivanov gave me the enviable homework of reading this lesser-known, infrequently seen C…
This past week my little family grew by one, so I'll be on official daddy leave for the next month or so, not only from American Theatre but from this blog (more or less). I leave you in th…
TCG's annual Top 10 Most Produced Plays list is among the theatre season's most anticipated, and most talked-about, barometers"though, as Gus Schulenburg pointed out recently, the conversati…
Playwright Katori Hall on the cover of the October issue This blog is still an indispensable platform for some of my thoughts about the theater and related arts, but it's hardly the only, a…
L.A.'s best stage director, Bart DeLorenzo, is profiled in LA Stage Times, in advance of his production of Cymbeline at A Noise Within:Earlier in DeLorenzo's career"particularly, he says, th…
Sarah Sokolovic, Darren Pettie, David Schwimmer, and Amy Ryan in Detroit (photo by Jeremy Daniel)As much as I share Charles Isherwood's love for Playwrights Horizons, which in so many ways …
Joy Zinoman; photo by Todd FransonMy friend and colleague Isaac Butler has said repeatedly of Joy Zinoman, the founding artistic of D.C.'s Studio Theatre, that she saved his life (something …