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...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 7th Dec 2018 | New York, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
I caught up with The Thanksgiving Play a few days after Thanksgiving. I was in the mood to laugh...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 16th Nov 2018 | New York, Review, United States of America
“So, a horse walks into a bar. The bartender says, ‘Why the long face?’ And the horse says, ‘I’m...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 12th Nov 2018 | Festivals, Ireland, Review
To those who feel overexposed to Waiting For Godot—which includes many theater snobs—no...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 2nd Nov 2018 | Interview, Musical Theatre, New York, Review, Theatre and Disability, Transcultural Collaborations, United States of America
Jonathan Kalb: So Jonathan, did you like the show? Jonathan Kalb: Can we come back to that,...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 30th Oct 2018 | New York, Review, United States of America
Nothing you do this week will likely be more worthwhile than spending 40-odd minutes with Dianne...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 7th Oct 2018 | Italy, New York, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
A week after Donald Trump was inaugurated, the atomic scientists who keep the famous Doomsday...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 20th Sep 2018 | New York, Review, United Kingdom, United States of America
I lost a night’s sleep recently over Forced Entertainment. I did it on purpose. They were coming...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 4th May 2018 | New York, Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Age, United States of America
My reaction to Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women when it first arrived in New York in 1994 was...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 7th Apr 2018 | Adaptation, New York, Review, United States of America
Last Monday, about forty minutes into the final preview of Yerma at the Park Avenue Armory—Simon...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 13th Mar 2018 | New York, Review, Theatre and Disability, United States of America
Lindsey Ferrentino has done a marvelous thing in conceiving a substantial and nuanced lead...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 7th Mar 2018 | New York, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
New Yorkers have split into factions on Martin McDonagh since his plays first showed up here two...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 27th Feb 2018 | New York, Review, Theatre and Gender, United States of America
Yesterday I knew nothing about the playwright Gracie Gardner or The Hearth, a feminist theater...
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...
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