Unnatural Acts is a strong and thought provoking play based on a true and tragic event: the purge of a group of gay men at Harvard University in 1920. The catalyst was the suicide of Cyril W…
… All aboard … A Little Journey is about what happens to a group of strangers back when travel across our broad United States meant a four-day train trip. Who'd be sharing your Pullman "…
In Cave of Forgotten Dreams, you follow Werner Herzog and his 3-D camera into one of the rarest and least accessible spots on earth -- Chauvet Cave in Southern France. Here, on its bumpy wal…
… It was the best of times … Midnight in Paris is as much a pleasure to watch as Woody Allen's best films even though it's not as good -- the fantasy is so powerful. This time travel fil…
… "an extravagant trifle" … The Illusion is well produced, stunningly acted, and trivial. It's interesting, though, for the attention it brings to formal aspects in theater history. When…
Throwing convention to the winds, a girl from a well-to-do San Francisco Jewish family joins a traveling theater troupe to get herself to the wild west, where she meets and marries, well, co…
The Independent Theater Bloggers Association (the "ITBA") is proud to announce the 2011 recipients of the Third Annual Patrick Lee Theater Blogger Awards. Patrick Lee was one of the ITBA's f…
... What is it? ... I went to Sleep No More thinking, from what I'd heard, that it would be an exciting, deconstructed version of Macbeth. That is, I expected to see a play since it's listed…
Midday, 1960, Anthony Caro, painted steel, 7' 73/4" x 37 3/8" x 12' 1 1/4" (233.1 x 95 x 370.2 cm), collection of the Museum of Modern Art, NY, photo: MMA There are two ways t…
... normalcy meets end of world ... Future Anxiety is a vast, crisp ensemble play that brings you to the future by following through on everything that's undermining our earth as we know and…
... triple play ... What a romp! What sheer fun! Moliere would have loved The School For Lies . And what a record, three for three, for Classic Stage and David Ives: 2009: Classic Stage prod…
I thought an opera, Seance on a Wet Afternoon, would likely be an exciting stretch for a talented musical theater composer and lyricist like Stephen Schwartz, author of Godspell, Pippin and …
Born Yesterday by all accounts was a wonderful play when it opened on Broadway in 1946, it's been a wonderful movie (a couple of times) and it's a wonderful play today. It's a love triangle …
A big problem for A Minister's Wife is that, unlike most of Shaw's plays, Candida is in my view -- though others disagree -- dated. It has to do with a woman determining her own fate but the…
... existentialism among the pioneers ... Which way to turn? Whom can we trust? It's 1845 and three couples, one wife pregnant, one couple with a little boy, journeying west in covered wagon…
... transformations ... The setting, the deck of Claire's beach house around Montauk, on the East End of Long Island, is delightful and the play is pleasant in a summery way well into it, wi…
... observations and interpretations ... The exhibition includes 57 works of art by 40 artists, small oil paintings and works on paper. Works are divided into three groups: quiet rooms with …
... "Great Work Can Happen Anywhere" *... March 22 I attended a panel** on "The Land of Plenty" -- New works in the NYC theater scene," with a focus on sustaining In…
A rumored connection to Shakespeare's the thing here -- not the play. Is Double Falsehood based on a play Shakespeare wrote* in collaboration with John Fletcher,* that has come down to us th…
Pipeline Theatre Company's Caucasian Chalk Circle is one of the best productions I've seen all season, if not the best. It's a complicated and fascinating play within a play, fired by Brecht…
.. if you want to have a good time ... Cactus Flower is an engaging, delightful light comedy, beautifully presented currently at the Westside Theatre. I'm sure the whole audience left smilin…
... two great productions ... (lucky playwright!) In the Wooster Group's visceral production of Williams' Vieux Carre, a writer/narrator allows his memory to transport him to the past, and t…
Two boxers in a local club in Scotland run by the trainer Bobby Burgess take separate paths to the top. Unfortunately the play fails to let us in on the obstacles either of them faces or how…
... mixed ... With flashbacks and fast forwards, Barney's Version follows Barney Panofsky through the saga of his three wives. First, as a sort of straight-man in Rome among his more footloo…
Mark P. Haggard writes from England ... ... disturbing questions ... Many people had their say on the Wall Street fraud (it would be indulgent to merely call it a crisis or crash, when a ban…