Fabulous? Certainly. An Invalid? Maybe Not. by ROBIN POGREBIN
New York theater has reasons to moan this season, but it's showing signs of unexpected vitality, both on stages and at construction sites.
Here is the second part of our three-part discussion, in which Esparza and I analyze his roles and performances in plays, as well as a thorough discussion of the art of acting - and, additio…
As Desi Arnaz might say, and Ricky Ricardo surely would say, "'Splain me somethin'." How do you take a dynamite cabaret act and turn it into a bio musical? Surely not this way.
Let me start by stating my bias plainly. I really want to love the American Repertory Theatre, and sometimes I do. But too often I walk out of an ART performance feeling frustrated, disappoi…
Producers of the New York International Fringe Festival have revealed a taste of wild things to come at the city's increasingly popular performance and theater arts event.
Expectations were high for "Anna in the Tropics" because of the Pulitzer, and director Emily Mann's version, first seen earlier in the season at the McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, N.J…
WILLIAMSTOWN - Making art isn't easy, even under the best of circumstances. As Damian Lanigan's fitful new play, "Dissonance," begins it is not the best of circumstances for the Bradley Stri…
It's unlikely that school superintendent Mark Enderle intended it, but by halting Fulton High School's planned production of "The Crucible," the superintendent cast himself squarely into the…
It's safe to assume that Keith Haring, the cheeky '80s gay pop artist and downtown- scene denizen, never had a love affair with the woman who was his assistant. But her influence is apparent…
Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's fairy-tale show makes the downtown scene.Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's fairy-tale show makes the downtown scene.
Last night, here in New York, I attended an impressive public panel about the arts and censorship (to be discussed in another post), and one of the many tendrils of the conversation, especia…
