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...
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...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 7th Dec 2018 | New York, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
I caught up with The Thanksgiving Play a few days after Thanksgiving. I was in the mood to laugh...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 16th Nov 2018 | New York, Review, United States of America
“So, a horse walks into a bar. The bartender says, ‘Why the long face?’ And the horse says, ‘I’m...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 12th Nov 2018 | Festivals, Ireland, Review
To those who feel overexposed to Waiting For Godot—which includes many theater snobs—no...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 2nd Nov 2018 | Interview, Musical Theatre, New York, Review, Theatre and Disability, Transcultural Collaborations, United States of America
Jonathan Kalb: So Jonathan, did you like the show? Jonathan Kalb: Can we come back to that,...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 30th Oct 2018 | New York, Review, United States of America
Nothing you do this week will likely be more worthwhile than spending 40-odd minutes with Dianne...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 7th Oct 2018 | Italy, New York, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
A week after Donald Trump was inaugurated, the atomic scientists who keep the famous Doomsday...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 20th Sep 2018 | New York, Review, United Kingdom, United States of America
I lost a night’s sleep recently over Forced Entertainment. I did it on purpose. They were coming...
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...
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