New Rapp: “The Sound Inside”
Adam Rapp is a polarizing playwright. After bursting onto the scene in 2001 with Nocturne — a...
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“Slave Play”: Jeremy O. Harris’s “Balcony”
Jeremy O. Harris’s Slave Play is the New York theater’s scandal du saison. It’s a play about race...
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Solving the “Lulu” Problem
Frank Wedekind’s Lulu is the archetypal modern classic about a sexy woman. Precisely for that...
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“Betrayal”: Popular Pinter
Betrayal is unique in the Pinter canon. Now beginning its fourth run on Broadway, it’s proving to...
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“Gary” Isn’t Queer Enough
The critical responses to Taylor Mac’s debut, Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus, have been...
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What Schreck’s Endings Mean To Me
Lately, whenever people ask for advice on what theater to see in New York, the show I’ve mentioned...
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Bowled Over: Suzan-Lori Parks’ “White Noise”
Suzan-Lori Parks has written a dark and disturbing allegory about the seemingly impossible dream...
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Fiona Shaw Performs “The Waste Land” In Madison Square Park
At the risk of throwing a wrench in your schedule, you really do have to drop everything (for the...
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“Come From Away”–New Canadian Musical On Broadway
Come From Away, a relentlessly peppy new musical by the Canadian husband-wife team David Hein and...
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Kate Now and Then
In the winter of 1977, at age 17, I played Petruchio/Fred Graham in a Kiss Me, Kate production at...
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Who’s His Daddy?: Jeremy Harris’ “Daddy” at Signature Theatre Center
The English author Samuel Butler once quipped grimly that the death of a father was “a new lease...
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Truth And “True West”
Sam Shepard’s True West has always been a magnet for celebrity hamming, particularly in the role...
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Welcome To “The Jungle” at St. Ann’s Warehouse
“Immersive theater” is a gimmicky term that can be just an indiscriminate pitch nowadays for any...
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And Then There Were None: Larissa FastHorse’s “The Thanksgiving Play”
I caught up with The Thanksgiving Play a few days after Thanksgiving. I was in the mood to laugh...
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Wit’s End: Will Eno’s “Thom Pain”
“So, a horse walks into a bar. The bartender says, ‘Why the long face?’ And the horse says, ‘I’m...
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The Druid “Godot”
To those who feel overexposed to Waiting For Godot—which includes many theater snobs—no...
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Jonathan Kalb Interviews Himself On Daniel Fish’s “Oklahoma!”
Jonathan Kalb: So Jonathan, did you like the show? Jonathan Kalb: Can we come back to that,...
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Dianne Wiest’s Winnie In Madison Square Park
Nothing you do this week will likely be more worthwhile than spending 40-odd minutes with Dianne...
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Too Close To Home: Stefano Massini’s “Intractable Woman”
A week after Donald Trump was inaugurated, the atomic scientists who keep the famous Doomsday...
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“All In A Night” – Forced Entertainment’s Marathon Production
I lost a night’s sleep recently over Forced Entertainment. I did it on purpose. They were coming...
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