262 stories by "Eric Grode"
The actress tackles Goneril’s villainy in “King Lear” Welcome to Building Character, TDF Stages’ ongoing series about actors and how they create their roles — I…
Designer Anita Yavich gets metaphysical for Broadway's "Venus in Fur" Bags of tricks don't get much deeper or kinkier than the one Vanda carries into her audition/ambush/apotheosis in…
"A Felony in Blue, or Death by Poker," by Daniel Gallant at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, focuses on five mob bosses and a suspicious dealer who hold a territory-carving card game.
A hot young director focuses on new work “It’s just some dream projects of mine that happened to find their way into the calendar in a strange way.” Sam Gold is describing …
"Nightlands" is a memory play set amid the uneasy racial tensions of Philadelphia in the early 1960s.
The New York Musical Theater Festival has attracted some bigger names than usual, with mixed results.
In a new Broadway comedy, the actress returns to Woody Allen’s world When Julie Kavner bought her ticket to see Midnight in Paris, she had no idea what she was in for. And that&…
MCC’s new play tackles race and identity Call a Spade is the name of a daring new four-character play by Shaleeha G’ntamobi, who has been called “our next Lorraine&#…
Ellen McLaughlin's "Septimus and Clarissa," an adaptation of Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway," throws down a bold visual gauntlet from its very first moments.
"Lush Valley" amounts to a gussied-up high school civics class, albeit one that is occasionally commandeered by the glee club.
Over the years Jonas Hassen Khemiri, the playwright behind "Invasion!," has learned the subtle but corrosive role that words can have.
In "The Tenant" by the Woodshed Collective, the audience has the run of a landmark Upper West Side church.
"Follies" reminiscences from theater folks who have seen productions of the show from the original 1971 and beyond.
A new show pushes the boundaries between the circus and the stage Les 7 Doigts de la Main, the Montreal circus troupe colloquially known as 7 Fingers, makes a point of pushing its vir…
A husband-and-wife composer-lyricist team, inspired by the life of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and his wife, Consuelo, created a show called "Saint-Ex."
How the crew handles the raucous finale of the Broadway revival In the final haunting moments of Hair, the entire cast (with one crucial exception) files its way up the aisles singing an a c…
"The Yellow Brick Road," a Latino-flavored riff on the L. Frank Baum classic, is carried by salsa and merengue.
How projection designers create their increasingly prominent art Call it the revenge of the A/V club. As theatre becomes more and more expensive, freestanding sets are increasingly giving wa…
In "The Shoemaker" Danny Aiello plays an immigrant caught up in the terrorist attacks and recalling an earlier dark time in his family's history.
The actor-writer launches “The Patsy” and “Jonas” With his gray temples, strong features, and sunken eyes, David Greenspan could almost pass for Mitt Romney’s b…
World War I has spawned a cultural cottage industry of war-themed stories in theater, film and art.
Unusual settings for staging Shakespeare have come to be celebrated as much as the plays and performances themselves.
How the actress approached her latest Broadway role Sierra Boggess’ recent stage efforts have pitted her against, in order, a deformed impresario, a conniving octopus, and the impresar…
"MoLoRa" is a visceral approach to Aeschylus's "Oresteia" by the South African playwright and director Yael Farber.
The New Haarlem Arts Theater makes its debut with a difficult James Baldwin drama from 1964.
