The number of shows that I’ve been to that sweep you up into a world so complex, so narratively tight and visually arresting and thematically overwhelming…is exactly three. ...
How do women maintain their authority aboard a ship of men unaccustomed to taking orders from the would-be fairer sex – other than, in the evening’s strongest segment, on Mary ...
Its pastiche is as ambitiously diffuse as a night at the Ziegfield Follies itself – and if the production as a whole veers towards the disjointed, its sins are – ...
An executioner is in a bit of a pickle. He can’t seem to match his victims’ bodies to their recently severed heads. Continue Reading Wolf Hall: Bookended
Throughout the play, we see the development of Heidi Holland, an art-historian passionate about ensuring that female as well as male artists are recognized and remembered. Continue ...
As in all of Stephen Adly Guirgis’s plays, Between Riverside and Crazy drops you off at the intersection of absurd, tragic, profane, and sublime. The traffic is coming from all ...
Knowledge may be power. But in Belladonna, a “Rappaccini’s Daughter”-inspired dance piece from Adam Barruch and Chelsea Bonosky, too much power can be toxic. Inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story, ...
What is a black play? Who is a black playwright? These are just some of the difficult questions posed by Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins’s darkly (no pun intended) comedic revision of Dion ...
Perhaps fittingly, Bottom’s Dream’s The Ghost – like the two Shakespearean tragedies of power on which it is based – feels like an at-times disjointed union of two plays: one ...
Music takes center stage in this uplifting show at The York Theater Company. Continue Reading Another Paris for Texans: Texas in Paris at The York
A wildly exciting musical biopic on America’s master of macabre. Continue Reading The Horror of Edgar Allan Poe: Nevermore
A Chinese femme fatale and an American tea trader feature in this noir-inspired drama. But is it anything we haven’t seen before? Continue Reading Film Chinois: Down the ...
Splendid set-pieces and screwball antics feature in this Kaufman & Hart revival. Take your in-laws. Continue Reading James Earl Jones on Broadway: You Can’t Take It With You
What price freedom? Euripides’ The Bacchae is a savage tale of mothers murdering children mistook for beasts, orgiastic pleasure and religious ecstasy that comes at the cost of the ramparts ...
A starchild searches for a home. A love-lorn woman seeks revenge on the lover (and sister) that wrong her. A father and son duke it out over the dinner table. ...
How polite do you have to be to the person interrogating you? In the first half of Victor Cahn’s slickly-paced new Villainous Company, two characters exchange so many pleasantries – ...
How to translate Chekhov? The problem of rendering the richly idiomatic works of the Russian playwright into contemporary English has plagued so many American and English attempts at staging Three Sisters. ...
When I was an undergrad, I went to a college that had a really pervasive date rape problem and is actually now under investigation for covering up rape under Title ...
