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There is likely some type of audience for a way over-the-top camp-pop pastiche musical, and let us hope they find their way to the Nederlander. For everyone else, though, this "disaster…
The only distressing element about Hungry, the initial installment in Richard Nelson's new trilogy about the Gabriel Family of Rhinebeck, NY--a philosophical, political and round-the-block n…
Like New York City there are good productions and bad productions. The rambling I've done this trip has ranged broadly, as the following round-up of offerings outside the National Theatre an…
Too many playwrights, nowadays, seem content to take an idea and stretch it out into some type of extended plot. Hnath has demonstrated, in both of his plays this season, that he has plenty …
LONDON--During the winter months the Shakespeare's Globe crowd--as the current artistic director Dominic Dromgoole...
LONDON--For whatever reason--recent artistic director Rufus Norris's enthusiastic approach?--things at the National...
The Academy Award-winning actor Forest Whitaker has offered a series of diverse and astounding star performances in films. Thus, he is not just another movie star stopping over on Broadway f…
Dot -- which was first presented at the 2015 Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville, with Johnson in the title role -- is not yet quite in a finished state. The first act could use…
I sometimes consider myself a bad feminist. Last year when folks I greatly respect expressed outrage that Manhattan Theatre...
The Super Bowl, the World Series, the Final Four--sports captivate millions of rabid fans, consistently rule the ratings, and...
Mike Birbiglia is an immensely likable guy, the sort you think would make a great friend. Anyway, that's what I was considering throughout his current--and third--stint at the Lynn Redgrave …
In the early 1960s, social psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted a series of preliminary experiments with Yale undergraduates prior to a more elaborate version, the results of which are now…
Michael Potts and LaChanze in the Encores! presentation
of Cabin in the Sky. Photo: Joan Marcus
There's "honey in...
An unruly teen from the Irish tenements of the Bronx is transplanted to a white-bread Catholic prep school on a hilltop in New Hampshire, where his braggadocio, bluster and petty-thievery th…
Cariou no longer has his second- or third-age voice. The sixth-age one, however, is well worth hearing. The veteran performer continues to exert masterful control over the lines in Shakespea…
Dear olde Miss Austen, who died in 1817 uncelebrated and unknown (her books having initially been published anonymously), is said to have enjoyed playing at theatricals in the family living …
Although you need to know that Casey Llewellyn's O, Earth, directed by Dustin Wills at HERE in a Foundry...
In lieu of resolutions, I like to kick the year off by playing "forecaster." And no, not in a meteorological way....
In Sojourners, the stimulating new Playwrights Realm production at Peter Sharp, the first-generation Nigerian-American author Mfoniso Udofia never directly explains the title, but implicitly…
As of late, I get a lot of questions on what to take a preteen to from adults who want something they see as slightly more...
How do you build an idea business for the next decade? This question has been front and center for myself and my agency as...
Linda Lavin in Our Mother's Brief Affair. Photo: Joan Marcus
A character steps out of character, just before the first act...
When Rui Rita's lights go up--but not too brightly--on Skeleton Crew, Dominique Morisseau's excellent drama, at the...
Anyone these days even casually interested in theater news has to be aware of the recent developments with the Classic Stage...
Hello, Dolly!--which turned fifty in 2014--is coming back to the lights of 44th Street (or thereabouts) in the spring of 2017, with the outsized title role essayed by the outsized Bette Midl…
