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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Jonathan Kalb
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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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...
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Myth, Motherhood, And Desperation in Modern Adaptation of Lorca’s “Yerma”
Last Monday, about forty minutes into the final preview of Yerma at the Park Avenue Armory—Simon...
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“Amy And The Orphans”: Down Syndrome Psychodrama?
Lindsey Ferrentino has done a marvelous thing in conceiving a substantial and nuanced lead...
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Martin McDonagh’s “Hangman” at The Atlantic Theatre
New Yorkers have split into factions on Martin McDonagh since his plays first showed up here two...
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Praises To “Athena”
Yesterday I knew nothing about the playwright Gracie Gardner or The Hearth, a feminist theater...
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Thomas Ostermeier’s “Returning To Reims”
Plays set in recording studios, in my experience, are usually stories of entrapment. The spaces...
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Robert O’Hara’s “Mankind”: Desperately Trying to Get in Trouble
I want the experience for the audience to be a sort of speeding train that gets completely and...
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Lucy Kirkwood’s “The Children” – The Environmental Disaster and Ethics
Annoying as it is, I have to start with a spoiler alert. That’s because what’s most interesting to...
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Afterthoughts On Ivo van Hove’s “The Fountainhead”
Toward the end of the fourth and final hour of Ivo van Hove’s interminable adaptation of Ayn...
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