499 stories by "ROB WEINERT-KENDT"
I happened to catch Michael C. Hall in two early-ish stage roles: as the young kid in the Taper's exquisite production of Skylight (with Laila Robins and Brian Cox) and as the emcee in …
Michael C. Hall, who became a television star on "Six Feet Under" and "Dexter," is back on Broadway in Will Eno's "The Realistic Joneses."
The 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama has just been announced, and I'm so happy to hear it went to Annie Baker's The Flick, I played I thoroughly enjoyed and admired. I don't know how Annie got …
I came across this lede in an old review of mine while working on my recent feature on Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally, and it struck as worth highlighting. The review is of the Mike L…
One reason I was so disappointed by Classic Stage Company's muddled, soporific staging of Brecht's Caucasian Chalk Circle last year was that two of the most formative theatergoing experience…
Nick Offerman (of "Parks and Recreation") and Megan Mullally (of "Will & Grace") are married and performing in Sharr White's drama "Annapurna" at the Acorn Theater.
This is the 10th year of the Wicked Stage blog (predated by its few years as a weekly-ish column in the inky pages of Back Stage West), but so far it's been a sparsely populated, as you may …
Although even Stephen Sondheim harshly dismissed the need for a musical-theater version of the Gershwin opera, the production arrives at the Ahmanson in April.Controversy of one kind or anot…
Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day helps Yale Repertory Theater give Shakespeare a Beatlesque spin with "These Paper Bullets!"
The director Casey Nicholaw prepares the new stage version of "Aladdin" for its March 20 opening on Broadway.
When I spoke to Jeanine Tesori last year about her new Encores! summer series, at the top of her wish list of musicals she wanted to revive was Randy Newman's Faust, which had a mostly great…
The following article ran in the July/August issue of American Theatre in advance of the play’s run at Shakespeare & Company and at the Long Wharf Theatre. The play is now in pr…
For its return to New York, John Cariani’s Almost, Maine is a proven hit — Extreme, near-Arctic cold can be an isolating purgatory–or, if northern Maine native John Cariani…
As my modest theater blog enters its 10th year, it now feels chiefly like a venue for links to my feature writing as it comes along (though I was too busy recently to trumpet my latest piece…
For what it's worth, when I recently took issue with Charles McNulty's review of three high-profile New York Shakespeare productions, I had already filed my review of the fall's Bard glut, b…
Charles McNulty is right on the merits and right in his reasoning in this new review lamenting the Lincoln Center Macbeth and adding his praise to the hosannahs for the Globe's Twelfth Night…
Kyle Riabko, of "Spring Awakening" and "Hair" on Broadway, leads the show "What's It All About? Bacharach Reimagined" at the Workshop Theater.
In lieu of a new Sondheim show, the airing tonight of Six by Sondheim on HBO qualifies as an event for fans. I'm gratified that the great interview clips that showed throughout the othe…
Capping this season's surfeit of Shakespeare productions is the Lincoln Center production of Macbeth, which I've taken to calling MacHawke after its star, Ethan Hawke (much as I will always …
How much does it matter how you say "Godot"? With Beckett, no detail is too small. As I've noted in this space before, the excellent 2000 Matrix Theatre production starring David Dukes and G…
I've got a piece in the new BAMBill, also online, about Filter Theatre's new environmentalist drama Water, which I saw on video in advance of writing. An excerpt:
A transatlantic mystery wi…
The Book of Mormon has now been a Broadway hit for two and a half years, and it's now making its second trip to Denver--about as close to "Sal Tlay Ka Siti" as this irreverent if less t…
There are no Playbills on offer at the Public's current production of The Good Person of Szechwan, a remount of the Foundry Theatre's beautiful, pitch-perfect queering/contemporizing of Brec…
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I confess I haven't followed David Cromer's busy New York directing career as closely as I could or should have; but how coul…
More than a dozen years ago, when L.A. native Jon Robin Baitz belatedly premiered his L.A.-set play Mizlansky/Zilinsky at the Geffen Playhouse, I had the chance to sit down with him and…
