Holes In The Hole
When I first heard that Suzan-Lori Parks had taken up the story of Thomas Jefferson and Sally...
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Jonathan Kalb
Mad Spring Roundup
Well, it’s happened again. The torrid pace of new openings this spring has outstripped my ability...
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Who’s Afraid of Thomas Stockmann?
The last time Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People (1882) made a big splash in New York was in 2013,...
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Doubtless Doubt
Whatever your opinion of the profundity of John Patrick Shanley’s Pulitzer- and Tony-winning 2005...
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In Poor Voice
Call me clueless, but I wasn’t aware, before seeing Mona Pirnot’s new play I Love You So Much I...
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Theater, Addiction, and Responsibility
I almost didn’t go see Days of Wine and Roses: The Musical because my memories of the highly...
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What Can I Say?
Rachel Bonds’s Jonah—directed by Danya Taymor at the Roundabout’s Laura Pels Theatre— is one of...
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Long and Short Hatreds
Joshua Harmon’s Prayer for the French Republic is a very good play about anti-Semitism that left...
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More Sickly Mansions
There are lots of reasons Americans have always loved family-dustup plays and exalted them with...
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Cuban Just So Stories
Buena Vista Social Club—a wonderfully infectious and sexy collection of golden-age Cuban music...
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Little Thumb on the Prairie
The headline for Swing State, a new play by Rebecca Gilman, is its pitch-perfect production...
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“Love”—A Dissenting View
Alexander Zeldin’s Love— a much-celebrated, quietly confrontational, British-devised piece from...
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The Blackest Raisin: “A Raisin in the Sun” at The Public Theatre
Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, as anyone reading this knows, is a cornerstone of...
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The 90-Minute MacGuffin: “Four Saints in Three Acts”
The opera Four Saints in Three Acts’ astonishingly successful run on Broadway in 1934 was the most...
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Honey, I’m Home! — Robert Icke’s “Oresteia”
If nothing else, you have to admire the chutzpah of Robert Icke’s Oresteia, which tries to...
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Leveling Effects: Matthew Spangler’s Adaptation of “The Kite Runner”
Khaled Hosseini’s 2003 novel The Kite Runner is a vividly descriptive and often gripping tale of...
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Post-Factual Theater: “MJ” on Broadway
On the way to a play one day in early 2019, I climbed out of the subway at 8th Avenue and 44th St....
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Unmanly Griefs: Robert Icke’s “Hamlet”
The first ten minutes of Robert Icke’s 3 ¾-hour Hamlet had me worried. Icke is a British directing...
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Pandemonium Magic: “The Hang” at HERE
Taylor Mac is one of those magi of pandemonium who knows how to breach the defenses of people like...
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Cut From Different Cloth: “Intimate Apparel” at Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater
I went to the new opera Intimate Apparel because the 2003 play it was made from is one of my...
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