“Dream Hou$e”—The Costs of Home
Review of Eliana Pipes’ Dream Hou$e, Long Wharf Theatre The question of heritage gets...
Read MoreDonald Brown, the nonfiction editor and online theater critic for the New Haven Review, is a member of the Connecticut Critics Circle. He holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Princeton University, where he studied as a Mellon Fellow after receiving a BA, as a Dean’s Scholar in Comparative Literature and Art History, at the University of Delaware, his home state. He has taught literature and writing as an instructor and lecturer at Yale, and has published essays on Thomas Pynchon, James Joyce, and Marcel Proust, the subjects of his dissertation. In 2014, Rowman and Littlefield published his critical study, Bob Dylan: American Troubadour. Posts on literature, film, music, and other interests appear on his personal blog, blogocentrism. He lives in Hamden, Connecticut.
Posted by Donald Brown | 24th Mar 2022 | Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
Review of Eliana Pipes’ Dream Hou$e, Long Wharf Theatre The question of heritage gets...
Read MorePosted by Donald Brown | 8th Mar 2022 | LGBTQ+ Theatre, Review, United States of America
At TheaterWorks Hartford, Connecticut, This Bitter Earth, Harrison David Rivers’ drama of love,...
Read MorePosted by Donald Brown | 8th Feb 2022 | Review, Theatre and Gender, United States of America
Hartford Stage in Hartford, Connecticut, has a stable tradition of offering literate plays...
Read MorePosted by Donald Brown | 24th Jan 2022 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven Connecticut stages a revival of Anna Deavere Smith’s Fires in the...
Read MorePosted by Donald Brown | 2nd Oct 2019 | New York, Review, United States of America
Baba Brinkman’s Rap Guides in Repertory This Fall For starters, you might be skeptical that a...
Read MorePosted by Donald Brown | 22nd Aug 2019 | Festivals, New York, Review, United States of America
A son and his mother, a mother and her son. What are some of the first thoughts that come to mind?...
Read MorePosted by Donald Brown | 22nd Jun 2018 | New York, Review, Theatre and Politics, Translation, United States of America
Review of Romulus the Great, Yangtze Repertory Theatre The Roman empire is under threat and is...
Read MorePosted by Donald Brown | 29th Oct 2017 | Adaptation, Review, Theatre and Age, United States of America
The kitchen of an aging spinster in a small town in Texas may be an unlikely place to find...
Read MorePosted by Donald Brown | 28th Oct 2017 | New York, Review, Theatre and Gender, Translation, United States of America
Elfriede Jelinek’s Shadow. Eurydice Says is not much of a drama, if by that is meant a...
Read MorePosted by Donald Brown | 27th Oct 2017 | Review, Theatre and Gender, United States of America
The great strength of The Wolves, the debut play by Sarah DeLappe now playing in an extended run...
Read MorePosted by Donald Brown | 20th Oct 2017 | Review, Translation, United States of America
Thanks to Trump’s designation of the press as “the enemy of the people,” the question of what...
Read MorePosted by Donald Brown | 5th Oct 2017 | United States of America
Two writers meet at a writer’s retreat in Michigan during a blizzard. She—Olivia (Jessica Love)—is...
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