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I've seen over half a dozen Macbeths over the course of my career. We're going to have Romeo and Juliet running off-Broadway the same time it is running on Broadway. I'm often asked: Why? Ye…
When money concerns affect creativity, one is always likely to be more conventional, more easily accessible, more conservative, more boring.
a review of David Leveaux's ROMEO AND JULIET starring Orlando Bloom
Anyone looking around New York City for something to do this weekend might want to check out the Japan Society in Manhattan
Anyone looking around New York City for something to do this weekend might want to check out the Japan Society in...
In a way you can't fault underfunded New York City Opera general manager and artistic director George Steel for scheduling <em>Anna Nicole</em>, now at BAM, as the opening for wh…
In a way you can't fault underfunded New York City Opera general manager and artistic director George Steel for scheduling Anna Nicole, now at BAM, as the opening for what could be the revam…
There was an infectious spirit at the Public Theater's free Public Works' production of The Tempest -- so much of it was joyous it was hard not to just go with it.
If you think Broadway boulevard comedies are a thing of the past, you'd better think again. Ethan Coen--the half of the cinema's
If you think Broadway boulevard comedies are a thing of the past, you'd better think again. Ethan Coen--the half of the...
a review of Horton Foote's THE OLD FRIENDS
An overview and review of the 20,000th performance of THE FANTASTICKS
I have written a great deal about the requirements for a successful turnaround of an arts organization....
"I've never actually seen an episode of The Simpsons," Gibson (Gibson Frazier) admits in the first section of Anne Washburn's
"I've never actually seen an episode of The Simpsons," Gibson (Gibson Frazier) admits in the first section of Anne Washburn's...
David Staller is likely the current world authority on George Bernard Shaw. For quite some time, under the auspices of the
David Staller is likely the current world authority on George Bernard Shaw. For quite some time, under the auspices of...
In our binge-watching era, the chance to be immersed in a young playwright's psyche is an idea whose time has come. Lucy Thurber's works are consistently compelling, and intelligently, if un…
It's time for arts-related mobile apps to get micro, right down to the seat you're sitting in, and extend the storytelling experience through second screens.
Yes, social media can amplify the impact of any of these activities but a single tweet or Facebook post is not enough to bring wide acclaim.
Whatever Regina Taylor is trying to get across in stop. reset., at the Pershing Square Signature Center's Romulus Linney
Whatever Regina Taylor is trying to get across in stop. reset., at the Pershing Square Signature Center's Romulus Linney,...
It is not an auspicious sign when a generally-positive, ever-hopeful drama critic sees fit to start off a review with some such elliptical statement as "the trouble with whimsy..."
There's nothing wrong in presenting a cycle about a character progressing from damaging childhood to escape from psychological entrapment adulthood. Indeed, it's a great idea. But the over…
There's nothing wrong in presenting a cycle about a character progressing from damaging childhood to escape from psychological entrapment adulthood. Indeed, it's a great idea. But the over…
