Radical Shakespeare By Kelvin L. Williams
A young playwright exiles King Lear from his own play.
A young playwright exiles King Lear from his own play.
Larry Kramer's boundless outrage changed the course of AIDS. Now, with his still-unfinished epic about America's hidden gay past (George Washington, Alexander Hamilton ...), he's furiously r…
"Perpetual sunset," the chorus sings, "is rather an unsettling thing." So is this beautiful re-Bergmanized revival of Hugh Wheeler and Stephen Sondheim's elegiac sex farce (based on Smiles of a Summer Night), with its restored Nordic tilt, its bracing draughts of carnal realpolitik, and its ghostly blue ache of some-requited love.
Stephen Sondheim and Angela Lansbury on a lifetime in theater.
David Mamet's Race has been outrun by a fast-moving culture.
From family favorites to hilarious holiday spoofs, these stage productions offer plenty of Yuletide cheer.
A smattering of moments that changed the way we entertain ourselves.
Exposing drama on every corner.
Liv Ullmann brings a northern severity to A Streetcar Named Desire.
Fela! can get even a Broadway audience shaking its hips. Plus: Kenneth Lonergan's midlife crisis.