4,217 stories from Broad Street Review
Some one-person plays provide drama, but most devolve into lectures. Mauckingbird's current homages to Truman Capote and James Baldwin fall in the latter camp.
Douglas Irvine has apparently heard the Peter Pan story so often that he sees no need to dramatize the contrast between Edwardian London and the mythical Neverland. And without that conflict…
If nothing else, Gina Gionfriddo's Becky Shaw demonstrates why a universal health care system shouldn't include free therapy- at least not for over-educated, uber-sensitive white people who've never faced a real problem in their lives and generate little in the way of taxable income.
This remarkably intelligent and moving play can't easily be pigeonholed as either a wicked comedy or a devastating psychodrama. Gina Gionfriddo's concern is the process by which human relati…
David Mamet's new play about sex and race, currently receiving a vigorous Broadway premiere under the author's direction, reprises a familiar Mamet theme: betrayal, especially by women.
A Sondheim musical is always a balancing act between the big commercial demands of the Broadway stage and the intimate, understated demands of the author's subtlety. This splendid revival ac…
Inclusivity advocates are up in arms because a sighted, hearing celebrity actress has been hired to portray the blind and deaf Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker. They say they're concerned about creating better art, but their logic suggests otherwise.
This first-rate adaptation of Elizabeth Spencer's novella combines elements that are more original, sensitive, personal, even courageous than we're accustomed to find in musical theater. But The Light in the Piazza suffers from two serious flaws.
