Thomas Ostermeier’s “Returning To Reims”
Plays set in recording studios, in my experience, are usually stories of entrapment. The spaces...
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...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 8th Mar 2017 | Review, Theatre and Age, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Like Beckett and Pinter, Caryl Churchill is writing fugues in old age (she’s 77). Far Away, A...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 6th Mar 2017 | New York, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
Is it a good or bad thing for a dyed-in-the-wool dystopian like Wallace Shawn when real life...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 31st Dec 2016 | New York, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
TRUE: Daniel Craig has real acting chops. If you doubted this because you thought the role of...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 15th Dec 2016 | New York, Review, United States of America
Anyone so inclined could find plenty of reasons to carp about The Babylon Line, Richard...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 14th Dec 2016 | New York, Review, United States of America
What a journey Lynn Nottage’s Sweat has had. When this gorgeously incisive play about heartbreak...
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