“Escaped Alone”: Catastrophe and Fear Meet Surrealism
Like Beckett and Pinter, Caryl Churchill is writing fugues in old age (she’s 77). Far Away, A...
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...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 26th Nov 2016 | New York, Review, United States of America
The Encounter, Simon McBurney’s two-hour intermissionless solo show on Broadway, which many...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 25th Nov 2016 | New York, Review, United States of America
Although the PR images of leaping, lunging and levitating female soccer players seem to promise...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 6th Nov 2016 | New York, Poland, Polish Theatre Abroad, Review, United States of America
It’s hard to think of a play more diabolically suited to the era of reality TV, vanished privacy...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 8th Oct 2016 | New York, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
Richard Gilman, an old teacher of mine and a terrific critic, used to say that whenever he read...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 22nd Sep 2016 | Musical Theatre, New York, Review, United States of America
Taylor Mac calls his extraordinary theatrical marathon, five years in the making, A 24-Decade...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 22nd Jul 2016 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Setting Shakespeare in modern Africa is risky business for a white first-world director. That...
Read More