Letters
Fun Plays and Known Actors: That's the Ticket
Fun Plays and Known Actors: That's the Ticket
THE OPENING moments of "Melissa Arctic," Craig Wright's music-filled reimagining of Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tale," rest squarely on the slim shoulders of 12-year-old Kiah Victoria.
The Monologuist Transformed His Life Into Art, but Left the Final Chapter Unfinished by Lynne Duke
His scent still lingers on the bedsheets in their SoHo loft. Kathie Russo hasn't changed them. She wants to remember the last time her husband, Spalding Gray, slept there.
If Shakespeare had been sent to an exclusive spa in the Rockies and put on a regimen of shiatsu, seaweed wraps and sedatives, the result might have been "Melissa Arctic." This sugar-frosted …
Theater Expansion Projects Have Artistic Directors Thinking Big. But Who's Going to Fill All Those New Seats?
The Folger, Out to Solve One of Shakespeare's Problem Plays
Craig Wright; Kaye Ballard.
The heroines of Wendy Wasserstein's entertaining new one-acts at Theater J are at that stage of middle age when life's limits really begin to assert themselves, the point at which the flesh …
Ari Roth saw his opening and went for it. It was the reading at Arena Stage of a new play by Wendy Wasserstein, and during a break, he made his way up to the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of…
It's hard to imagine "Allegro" being thought of as a masterwork. But as Schaeffer's chamber-musical treatment demonstrates, there's more here to savor than its invisible status would have yo…
He'll have Dana Ivey as Big Mama, George Grizzard as Big Daddy, Emily Skinner as Mae (Sister Woman) and Patrick Wilson as Brick. More auditions will be scheduled in New York and Washington.
"Caroline, or Change" deserves at least an opportunity for a wider audience to discover it.
This is a short end-of-year paean to failure. Not the extravagant kind of disaster, the $10 million flop that could clip the wings of the most devoted of Broadway angels, but failure of a mo…
"Cooking With Elvis" is in absolutely terrible taste. And I mean that in a good way.
Reagan's Legacy, Where 'Angels' Dares to Tread by Philip Kennicott
Gregory Doran's spot-on production gives Fletcher's sendup of the chasm between the sexes the respect it deserves.