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Posted by Jonathan Kalb | 20th Nov 2025 | Adaptation, Review, United States of America

The British directing star Robert Icke specializes in contemporary adaptations of classics. He...

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Dupes of Hazard

Posted by Jonathan Kalb | 16th Nov 2025 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America

The farcical premise of Rajiv Joseph’s play Archduke—just opened at the Roundabout’s Laura Pels...

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Nearly Finished

Posted by Jonathan Kalb | 15th Nov 2025 | Acting, Review, United States of America

With a depressingly vacuous, celebrity-circus Waiting for Godot sucking up so much oxygen on...

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Checking The Boxes

Posted by Jonathan Kalb | 1st Nov 2025 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America

I went to Caroline Guiela Nguyen’s Lacrima at BAM with great eagerness and curiosity. This was a...

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Barbarians in Midtown

Posted by Jonathan Kalb | 22nd Oct 2025 | Musical Theatre, Review, United States of America

The Terrence McNally/Stephen Flaherty/Lynn Ahrens musical Ragtime is not the subtlest theater...

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Bloody Ignorant Apes

Posted by Jonathan Kalb | 15th Oct 2025 | Directing, Review, United States of America

Absurd as it may seem, Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, a demanding play about existential...

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Taking A Hit

Posted by Jonathan Kalb | 14th Oct 2025 | Adaptation, Review, United States of America

James Graham’s play Punch tells the true story of a shiftless, belligerent rowdy who heedlessly...

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Welcome To The Machine

Posted by Jonathan Kalb | 5th Oct 2025 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America

Among the most depressing facets of Donald Trump’s pathology is how all-consuming his hunger for...

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School Camp

Posted by Jonathan Kalb | 19th Jul 2025 | Review, Theatre and Gender, United States of America

Emmanuelle Mattana’s Trophy Boys is a cheeky debut play that’s a lot of fun to watch, even if it...

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Off-Limits Love: Abby Rosebrock’s “Lowcountry,” A New Play at the Atlantic Theater

Posted by Jonathan Kalb | 4th Jul 2025 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America

Abby Rosebrock’s Lowcountry, a new play directed by Jo Bonney at the Atlantic Theater, begins with...

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Man Out Of The Blue

Posted by Jonathan Kalb | 10th Jun 2025 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America

Angry Alan is an ickily pointed cautionary tale about an ordinary guy who falls into the rabbit...

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Doctor, Doctor, Doctor

Posted by Jonathan Kalb | 8th Jun 2025 | Review, Theatre and Age, United States of America

Jeffrey Hatcher’s new version of The Imaginary Invalid, directed by Jesse Berger, is a smart and...

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Uncle Actor

Posted by Jonathan Kalb | 12th Apr 2025 | Adaptation, New York, Review

Andrew Scott’s Vanya—a solo show in which he plays all the roles in Anton Chekhov’s classic...

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Underneath the Grass Roots

Posted by Jonathan Kalb | 2nd Apr 2025 | New York, Review, Theatre and Art

Alice Childress has been having a moment the past few years. This extraordinary Black playwright,...

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Dropping Balms

Posted by Jonathan Kalb | 13th Feb 2025 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America

With the United States now governed by swaggering, ignorant bigots spewing xenophobic venom,...

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Getting Known

Posted by Jonathan Kalb | 10th Feb 2025 | Directing, Review, United States of America

Beckett Briefs is a great title for a program of short plays by Ireland’s most famously laconic...

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Holes In The Hole

Posted by Jonathan Kalb | 30th May 2024 | New York, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America

When I first heard that Suzan-Lori Parks had taken up the story of Thomas Jefferson and Sally...

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Mad Spring Roundup

Posted by Jonathan Kalb | 29th Apr 2024 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America

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?

Posted by Jonathan Kalb | 10th Apr 2024 | Immersive Theatre, New York, Review, United States of America

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

Posted by Jonathan Kalb | 25th Mar 2024 | New York, Review, Theatre and Religion, United States of America

Whatever your opinion of the profundity of John Patrick Shanley’s Pulitzer- and Tony-winning 2005...

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