This year marked the centennial of Arthur Miller's birth and for my money, not enough attention has been paid. Sure, there have been a few productions. Both the Nashville Repertory Theatre a…
Not everyone is a theater fanatic like me and my buddy Bill who are so crazy about theater that we will see"and have seen"just about anything. When most people think about seeing a show, the…
New Yorkers are crazy about their dogs. And so I had assumed that the canine crowd would be out in full force at the Cort Theatre to see the Broadway debut of Sylvia, the revival of the 1995…
For years now, gay-themed plays have centered around the angst of coming out or the agonies of the AIDS crisis. But we now live in an era when gays and lesbians can openly serve in the milit…
Good theater will certainly be among the things I'll be grateful for this Thanksgiving. But so will be the presence in my life of family, friends and faithful readers. I wish you and yours a…
Sorry about missing yesterday's deadline. But, dear readers, I had the choice of writing a post or seeing a show and, although it was my fifth of the week and I usually take a sabbatic…
Theater, or at least serious theater, is supposed to reflect the way society feels about itself at that given moment in time. And right now, gauging by the work of some of our best young pla…
It seems somehow frivolous to chatter about what I've seen at the theater on the day after more than 100 people were massacred in the terrorist attack at the charming 150-year old Bataclan t…
Joe Cino, who turned a gay coffeehouse into a theatrical haven for audacious playwrights like John Guare, Sam Shepard and Lanford Wilson during the 1960's, famously introduced each evening's…
This past week, Adam Szymkowicz posted the 800th interview he's done over the past six years on his website "I Interview Playwrights" (click here to read it). Many of his subjects…
David Lindsay-Abaire plays come in two flavors. They can be serious and thought-provoking dramas like Good People and his Pulitzer-Prize winning Rabbit Hole about parents surviving the death…
Is there any theater company hotter right now than the Public Theater? It started the year off with the literally revolutionary production of Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton that moved to Broa…
Cloud Nine made the great British playwright Caryl Churchill's name when it was first produced in London back in 1979. And when it moved to New York a couple of years later, it won…
October is always a crazy month for me. Not only do work demands kick into high gear, so does the theater season. And, on top of that, five of the people I most love have birthdays"and requi…
History, they say, is written by the victors. But sometimes there's a game change and new tales get told. Which may explain why long suppressed parts of the American story are finally m…
As they age, some actors retreat from the stage, citing memory loss, diminished stamina or some other disabling factor. Luckily, neither Cicely Tyson, who will be 91 in December, nor James E…
"I dare you to knock a show starring deaf people and a girl in a wheelchair," my husband K said when I got home from the Deaf West Theatre's revival of Spring Awakening that is playing a lim…
Barbecue, the sly satire that opened this week at the Public Theater, is filled with so many surprises that the ushers won't even hand out programs until the intermission. Which makes it a b…
Relations between the worlds of theater and religion have been bad ever since the Puritans shut down London's theaters in 1642. And although the theaters reopened 18 years later with the res…
Alas, other demands on my time have gotten in the way of my ability to do a post today but I'll be back with a new one on Wednesday. In the meantime, I hope you'll check out some of th…
The American Theatre Wing's annual gala is always a great party. Each year, the Wing, the creator of the Tony Awards, selects a beloved person from the theater world to honor and lots of sho…
Sometimes even a serious theatergoer just wants to have fun. At least that's what I was hoping to do when I headed off to see the MCC Theater production of The Legend of Georgia McBride. And…
Many critics seem to be regarding Hamlet in Bed, the overwrought new play that opened last week at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, as a kind of audition for some other production they'd rat…
Resurrection seems to be the latest theater trend. News has recently come that shows featuring holograms of Billie Holiday and Whitney Houston will tour across the country. And now, on both …
Richard Maxwell clearly has a following. The night my theatergoing buddy Bill and I saw Isolde, the experimental work written and directed by Maxwell that's playing at Theatre For A New Audi…