Edward Albee’s “Three Tall Women”: A Dissent
My reaction to Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women when it first arrived in New York in 1994 was...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 4th May 2018 | New York, Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Age, United States of America
My reaction to Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women when it first arrived in New York in 1994 was...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 7th Apr 2018 | Adaptation, New York, Review, United States of America
Last Monday, about forty minutes into the final preview of Yerma at the Park Avenue Armory—Simon...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 13th Mar 2018 | New York, Review, Theatre and Disability, United States of America
Lindsey Ferrentino has done a marvelous thing in conceiving a substantial and nuanced lead...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 7th Mar 2018 | New York, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
New Yorkers have split into factions on Martin McDonagh since his plays first showed up here two...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 27th Feb 2018 | New York, Review, Theatre and Gender, United States of America
Yesterday I knew nothing about the playwright Gracie Gardner or The Hearth, a feminist theater...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 21st Feb 2018 | Germany, Review, Theatre and Politics
Plays set in recording studios, in my experience, are usually stories of entrapment. The spaces...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 29th Jan 2018 | New York, Playwriting, Review, United States of America
I want the experience for the audience to be a sort of speeding train that gets completely and...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 5th Jan 2018 | London, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom
Annoying as it is, I have to start with a spoiler alert. That’s because what’s most interesting to...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 8th Dec 2017 | Belgium, New York, Review, United States of America
Toward the end of the fourth and final hour of Ivo van Hove’s interminable adaptation of Ayn...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 28th Nov 2017 | New York, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
Julia Cho’s Office Hour began life as a reaction to the 2007 mass-shooting at Virginia Tech. It...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 12th Nov 2017 | Adaptation, New York, Review, United States of America
Dear Dust Man, I’m an avid theatergoer who missed seeing Nia Vardalos’s stage adaptation of Cheryl...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 30th Oct 2017 | Acting, Review, United States of America
The most interesting question about David Greenspan’s one-man, 6-hour performance of Eugene...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 20th Oct 2017 | Directing, New York, Review, United States of America
Maria Irene Fornes’s 1983 play Mud, widely considered a contemporary classic, is rarely produced...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 17th Oct 2017 | Acting, Germany, Review
Richard Crookback is Shakespeare’s dazzling carnival monster, a showoff criminal who charms us...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 2nd Oct 2017 | Adaptation, New York, Review, United States of America
From Brecht’s plan to project films of Marxist revolutions behind Didi and Gogo in Waiting For...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 16th May 2017 | Adaptation, New York, Review, United States of America
A Doll’s House made Henrik Ibsen a household name in 1879. It ruffled feathers throughout the...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 5th May 2017 | Musical Theatre, New York, Review, Theatre for Young Audiences, United States of America
My companion at Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the new Broadway musical adaptation of Roald...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 2nd Apr 2017 | New York, Review, United States of America
As I sat in my $95 seat applauding the elegant and very smart production of Eugene O’Neill’s The...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 26th Mar 2017 | New York, Review, Theatre and Disability, United States of America
Audacious risk-taking in the theater comes in many colors, most of them loud. You can defy a...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 14th Mar 2017 | Canada, Musical Theatre, Review
Come From Away, a relentlessly peppy new musical by the Canadian husband-wife team David Hein and...
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