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Andrew Scott’s Vanya—a solo show in which he plays all the roles in Anton Chekhov’s classic...
Read MorePosted 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...
Read MorePosted 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,...
Read MorePosted 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,...
Read MorePosted 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...
Read MorePosted 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...
Read MorePosted 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...
Read MorePosted 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,...
Read MorePosted 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...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 3rd Mar 2024 | Review, Transmedia, United States of America
Call me clueless, but I wasn’t aware, before seeing Mona Pirnot’s new play I Love You So Much I...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 1st Mar 2024 | Musical Theatre, Review, United States of America
I almost didn’t go see Days of Wine and Roses: The Musical because my memories of the highly...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 12th Feb 2024 | Review, Theatre and Gender, United States of America
Rachel Bonds’s Jonah—directed by Danya Taymor at the Roundabout’s Laura Pels Theatre— is one of...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 31st Jan 2024 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
Joshua Harmon’s Prayer for the French Republic is a very good play about anti-Semitism that left...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 7th Jan 2024 | Acting, Review, United States of America
There are lots of reasons Americans have always loved family-dustup plays and exalted them with...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 20th Dec 2023 | Musical Theatre, Review, United States of America
Buena Vista Social Club—a wonderfully infectious and sexy collection of golden-age Cuban music...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 11th Oct 2023 | Review
The headline for Swing State, a new play by Rebecca Gilman, is its pitch-perfect production...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 2nd Apr 2023 | Devised Theatre, Documentary Theatre, New York, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom, United States of America
Alexander Zeldin’s Love— a much-celebrated, quietly confrontational, British-devised piece from...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 9th Dec 2022 | New York, Review, Theatre and Decolonization, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, as anyone reading this knows, is a cornerstone of...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 14th Oct 2022 | New York, Review, Theatre and Opera, United States of America
The opera Four Saints in Three Acts’ astonishingly successful run on Broadway in 1934 was the most...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 13th Aug 2022 | Adaptation, Directing, New York, Review, United States of America
If nothing else, you have to admire the chutzpah of Robert Icke’s Oresteia, which tries to...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 10th Aug 2022 | Adaptation, Afghanistan, Directing, Review, United States of America
Khaled Hosseini’s 2003 novel The Kite Runner is a vividly descriptive and often gripping tale of...
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