“Love”—A Dissenting View
Alexander Zeldin’s Love— a much-celebrated, quietly confrontational, British-devised piece from...
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...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 20th Jul 2022 | Musical Theatre, New York, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
On the way to a play one day in early 2019, I climbed out of the subway at 8th Avenue and 44th St....
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 19th Jul 2022 | Adaptation, New York, Playwriting, Review, United States of America
The first ten minutes of Robert Icke’s 3 ¾-hour Hamlet had me worried. Icke is a British directing...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 2nd Jul 2022 | LGBTQ Theatre, Musical Theatre, New York, Review, United States of America
Taylor Mac is one of those magi of pandemonium who knows how to breach the defenses of people like...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 1st Jul 2022 | New York, Review, Theatre and Decolonization, Theatre and Opera, United States of America
I went to the new opera Intimate Apparel because the 2003 play it was made from is one of my...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 15th Jun 2022 | Musical Theatre, Review, Theatre and Decolonization, United States of America
In my time as a critic I’ve noticed on numerous occasions that musicals rooted in political...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 11th Jun 2022 | Review, Theatre and Decolonization, Theatre and Gender, United States of America
Dominique Morisseau is aware that most of her fans see her as a predominantly naturalistic...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 2nd Jun 2022 | LGBTQ Theatre, Playwriting, Review, United States of America
Walking out of the spiffy new production of Richard Greenberg’s Take Me Out, my canny friend Tom,...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 29th May 2022 | Review, Theatre and Gender, United States of America
Paula Vogel’s How I Learned to Drive is, famously, the play that blew the lid off the subject of...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 30th Jan 2022 | New York, Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
Skeleton Crew is Dominique Morisseau’s best play so far. It’s the most streamlined work in her...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 23rd Dec 2021 | Adaptation, New York, Review, Theatre and Gender, United States of America
As most people reading this will already know, Company was first reworked for a female Bobbie...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 6th Feb 2020 | Festivals, New York, Review, United States of America
“Static” is one of those words from which most artists recoil. It’s typically used for something...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 23rd Jan 2020 | LGBTQ Theatre, New York, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
An oddity of this theatrical season to ponder as we bid farewell to 2019: In two current New York...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 22nd Dec 2019 | Germany, Review, United Kingdom, United States of America
Two years ago, the British director Richard Jones brought a stunning production of Eugene...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 12th Dec 2019 | France, Germany, LGBTQ Theatre, New York, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
First of all, don’t be put off by the pompous, academic title. Thomas Ostermeier’s...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 15th Nov 2019 | New York, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
James Sheldon’s Reparations is a new play about racial grievance, guilt, and retribution in...
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