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Jake Brasch’s The Reservoir tells the story of a charmingly self-deprecating, openly gay NYU...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 7th Mar 2026 | Acting, New York, Playwriting, Review, United States of America
Jake Brasch’s The Reservoir tells the story of a charmingly self-deprecating, openly gay NYU...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 3rd Mar 2026 | Acting, New York, Review, United States of America
Ngozi Anyanwu’s The Monsters is a poignant and muscular two-hander about a Black brother and...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 4th Feb 2026 | Playwriting, Review, United States of America
At the risk of sounding smug, let me say: I have been yowling, since the early days of the...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 20th Jan 2026 | Acting, Review, United States of America
Bug is a thoughtfully creepy psycho-thriller, set in a Texas motel, about a seemingly likeable yet...
Read MorePosted 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...
Read MorePosted 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...
Read MorePosted 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...
Read MorePosted 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...
Read MorePosted 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...
Read MorePosted 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...
Read MorePosted 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...
Read MorePosted 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...
Read MorePosted 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...
Read MorePosted 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...
Read MorePosted 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...
Read MorePosted 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...
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...
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