Thomas Ostermeier’s “Richard III” at BAM
Richard Crookback is Shakespeare’s dazzling carnival monster, a showoff criminal who charms us...
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...
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...
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