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Skeleton Crew is Dominique Morisseau’s best play so far. It’s the most streamlined work in her...
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...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 10th Nov 2019 | New York, Review, Theatre and Art, United States of America
Adam Rapp is a polarizing playwright. After bursting onto the scene in 2001 with Nocturne — a...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 24th Oct 2019 | New York, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
Jeremy O. Harris’s Slave Play is the New York theater’s scandal du saison. It’s a play about race...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 17th Oct 2019 | New York, Review, Theatre and Gender, United States of America
Frank Wedekind’s Lulu is the archetypal modern classic about a sexy woman. Precisely for that...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 10th Sep 2019 | New York, Review, United Kingdom, United States of America
Betrayal is unique in the Pinter canon. Now beginning its fourth run on Broadway, it’s proving to...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 26th May 2019 | LGBTQ+ Theatre, New York, Review, United States of America
The critical responses to Taylor Mac’s debut, Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus, have been...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 10th May 2019 | New York, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
Lately, whenever people ask for advice on what theater to see in New York, the show I’ve mentioned...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 3rd May 2019 | New York, Review, United States of America
Suzan-Lori Parks has written a dark and disturbing allegory about the seemingly impossible dream...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 20th Apr 2019 | New York, Review, United States of America
At the risk of throwing a wrench in your schedule, you really do have to drop everything (for the...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 9th Apr 2019 | Canada, Musical Theatre, Review
Come From Away, a relentlessly peppy new musical by the Canadian husband-wife team David Hein and...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 4th Apr 2019 | New York, Review, United States of America
In the winter of 1977, at age 17, I played Petruchio/Fred Graham in a Kiss Me, Kate production at...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 9th Mar 2019 | LGBTQ+ Theatre, New York, Review, United States of America
The English author Samuel Butler once quipped grimly that the death of a father was “a new lease...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 10th Feb 2019 | New York, Review, United States of America
Sam Shepard’s True West has always been a magnet for celebrity hamming, particularly in the role...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 15th Jan 2019 | Immersive Theatre, Review, United Kingdom, United States of America
“Immersive theater” is a gimmicky term that can be just an indiscriminate pitch nowadays for any...
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