“Sensuality of Action”: Paula Vogel’s “Indecent” on Broadway
Indecent is the new play by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel, belated making her...
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New York
Mourning in America: Target Margin Brings O’Neill’s Ghosts to Life
Though regarded by many as the father of American drama, Eugene O’Neill correctly diagnosed...
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Conversation with Renée Fleming – American Soprano
The evening of April 25th marked the culmination of Opera America’s Onstage at the Opera...
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Theater Review: Arthur Miller’s “The Price”
In Roundabout Theatre Company’s revival of Arthur Miller’s The Price, the first striking element...
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Ivo van Hove’s “Scenes from a Marriage”
Intimacy burns. A couple pummels each other in an endlessly repetitive cycle from which there is...
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Past Due: Sarah Benson Directs Richard Maxwell’s “Samara”
In the closing moments of Richard Maxwell’s Samara, the audience is plunged into near-total...
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“The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs” at the Guggenheim
Creators of The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs appeared at the Guggenheim to discuss the creation of...
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“The Hairy Ape”: A Comedy of Ancient and Modern Life In Eight Scenes
1000 yellow seats, tier upon tier — a sea of bright yellow rising to the rafters: this is the...
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“The Hairy Ape” at the Park Avenue Armory, NYC
As I sat in my $95 seat applauding the elegant and very smart production of Eugene O’Neill’s The...
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Daughters of Misfortune: Guillermo Calderón’s “Villa”
Trauma affects everyone differently. Survivors may become fragile or embittered, depressed or...
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Understated Risk-Taking in Beckettian “Wakey, Wakey”
Audacious risk-taking in the theater comes in many colors, most of them loud. You can defy a...
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A Conversation With Anne Bogart: “I’m Absolutely Certain That Certainty Is Bad”
An originator of the Viewpoints system of training for actors and founder of SITI company,...
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Love Revolution: The Assembly’s “Home/Sick”
Commitment is hard. Even within the well-defined parameters of traditional monogamy, balancing the...
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Review: Wallance Shawn’s “Evening at the Talk House”
Is it a good or bad thing for a dyed-in-the-wool dystopian like Wallace Shawn when real life...
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Inside Preparations for the New York Chekhov Festival
On March 24, The Russian Arts Theater and Studio will launch its first annual New York Chekhov...
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Women on the Verge: Caryl Churchill’s “Escaped Alone”
In an 1896 essay on “The Tragic in Daily Life,” the Symbolist playwright Maurice Maeterlinck...
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“Champion” – Scenes From a Boxer’s Life, A New Opera
In an inviting, Frank Lloyd Wright-designed venue, New Yorkers finally got a sampling of Champion,...
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Death on the Rialto: Wallace Shawn’s “Evening at the Talk House”
As goes the theater, so goes civilization. In Wallace Shawn’s Evening at the Talk House the demise...
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“Oh Boy!”: From Champigny to Broadway
Following the U.S. premiere of Oh Boy! on Broadway, at the Duke on 42nd Street presented by the...
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The Things We Carry: Geoff Sobelle’s “The Object Lesson”
“Do your things spark joy?” That (to some, risibly) simple question, and her runaway 2014...
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