In Poor Voice
Call me clueless, but I wasn’t aware, before seeing Mona Pirnot’s new play I Love You So Much I...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 3rd Mar 2024 | Review, Transmedia, United States of America
Call me clueless, but I wasn’t aware, before seeing Mona Pirnot’s new play I Love You So Much I...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 1st Mar 2024 | Musical Theatre, Review, United States of America
I almost didn’t go see Days of Wine and Roses: The Musical because my memories of the highly...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 12th Feb 2024 | Review, Theatre and Gender, United States of America
Rachel Bonds’s Jonah—directed by Danya Taymor at the Roundabout’s Laura Pels Theatre— is one of...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 31st Jan 2024 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
Joshua Harmon’s Prayer for the French Republic is a very good play about anti-Semitism that left...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 7th Jan 2024 | Acting, Review, United States of America
There are lots of reasons Americans have always loved family-dustup plays and exalted them with...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 20th Dec 2023 | Musical Theatre, Review, United States of America
Buena Vista Social Club—a wonderfully infectious and sexy collection of golden-age Cuban music...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 11th Oct 2023 | Review
The headline for Swing State, a new play by Rebecca Gilman, is its pitch-perfect production...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 2nd Apr 2023 | Devised Theatre, Documentary Theatre, New York, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom, United States of America
Alexander Zeldin’s Love— a much-celebrated, quietly confrontational, British-devised piece from...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 9th Dec 2022 | New York, Review, Theatre and Decolonization, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, as anyone reading this knows, is a cornerstone of...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 14th Oct 2022 | New York, Review, Theatre and Opera, United States of America
The opera Four Saints in Three Acts’ astonishingly successful run on Broadway in 1934 was the most...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 13th Aug 2022 | Adaptation, Directing, New York, Review, United States of America
If nothing else, you have to admire the chutzpah of Robert Icke’s Oresteia, which tries to...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 10th Aug 2022 | Adaptation, Afghanistan, Directing, Review, United States of America
Khaled Hosseini’s 2003 novel The Kite Runner is a vividly descriptive and often gripping tale of...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 20th Jul 2022 | Musical Theatre, New York, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
On the way to a play one day in early 2019, I climbed out of the subway at 8th Avenue and 44th St....
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 19th Jul 2022 | Adaptation, New York, Playwriting, Review, United States of America
The first ten minutes of Robert Icke’s 3 ¾-hour Hamlet had me worried. Icke is a British directing...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 2nd Jul 2022 | LGBTQ+ Theatre, Musical Theatre, New York, Review, United States of America
Taylor Mac is one of those magi of pandemonium who knows how to breach the defenses of people like...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 1st Jul 2022 | New York, Review, Theatre and Decolonization, Theatre and Opera, United States of America
I went to the new opera Intimate Apparel because the 2003 play it was made from is one of my...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 15th Jun 2022 | Musical Theatre, Review, Theatre and Decolonization, United States of America
In my time as a critic I’ve noticed on numerous occasions that musicals rooted in political...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 11th Jun 2022 | Review, Theatre and Decolonization, Theatre and Gender, United States of America
Dominique Morisseau is aware that most of her fans see her as a predominantly naturalistic...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 2nd Jun 2022 | LGBTQ+ Theatre, Playwriting, Review, United States of America
Walking out of the spiffy new production of Richard Greenberg’s Take Me Out, my canny friend Tom,...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 29th May 2022 | Review, Theatre and Gender, United States of America
Paula Vogel’s How I Learned to Drive is, famously, the play that blew the lid off the subject of...
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