Theater
Theater
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The Scottsboro Boys and Neighbors Display Racial Caricatures, Rain Serves Up Family Puzzles
By Michael Feingold
In theater, the story you tell and the way you tell it need to be, to some extent, the same thing. A disparity between style and substance can... More >>
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Hit-Or-Miss Potty Mouth Insights in The Soup Show
By Eric Grode
If Anna Deavere Smith, Lydia Davis, and Margaret Cho were to take over as guest bloggers at Jezebel, their results might resemble The Soup Show, a... More >>
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Playing Politics In Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers and Lenin's Embalmers
Vietnam gets some airtime, Lenin gets some stuffing
By Alexis Soloski
Karl Marx famously claimed that world-historic facts appear twice—"the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce." Marx knew plenty... More >>
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Happy in the Poorhouse GOES SOMETHING LIKE THIS
By James Hannaham
IF YOUSE WANT A REAL SENSE OF WHAT IT'S LIKE TO SIT THROUGH THE AMORALISTS' HAPPY IN THE POORHOUSE, IMAGINE THAT I AM UP IN YOUR FACE, SHRIEKING... More >>
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The Ultimately Humorless Rudolf II
By Christopher Grobe
How could a play featuring a golden, ruby-studded nasal prosthesis ultimately be so humorless? Rudolf II, which chronicles the long slow demise of... More >>
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A Memorial for H.M. "Harry" Koutoukas
A memorial for playwright H.M. "Harry" Koutoukas will be held on Sunday March 28, at 2 p.m. at Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square South.... More >>
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Equivocation and The Tempest Show a Weak Will; The Miracle Worker Works No Wonders
By Michael Feingold
Even in Shakespeare's own time, people idolized him. Otherwise his colleague Ben Jonson would never have bothered to say, after Shakespeare's... More >>
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The Duchess of Malfi and A Behanding in Spokane
John Webster and Martin McDonagh seek some revenge
By Alexis Soloski
"I know death hath ten thousand several doors," says the Duchess of Malfi, "for men to take their exits." For 2,400 years, the theater has thrown... More >>
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Three Pianos, Antidote to Winter's Dregs
By Jacob Gallagher-Ross
Oddly enough, the best antidote to winter's bitter dregs might be a 19th-century outcast's desolate wanderings through a frozen night. Three... More >>
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Brack's Last Bachelor Party Remains Better Left to the Imagination
By Tom Sellar
Henrik Ibsen threw the wildest party in Western drama, but his audience wasn't invited—it takes place between the acts of Hedda Gabler, his... More >>
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Living in a Musical Hoofs Into TNC
By Leslie Minora
Living in a Musical—the sixth collaboration by Mark Marcante (director), Tom Attea (book and lyrics), and Arthur Abrams (score)—is as... More >>
From the Print Edition
Duncan Campbell and the Bruce High Quality Foundation Take A Bumpy Ride to Utopia
By Martha Schwendener
There's a kind of utopian/dystopian strain running through South Soho right now. I use those terms sparingly, since Thomas More, 16th-century author of Utopia, didn't mean what we think of… More >>
The Scottsboro Boys and Neighbors Display Racial Caricatures, Rain Serves Up Family Puzzles
By Michael Feingold
In theater, the story you tell and the way you tell it need to be, to some extent, the same thing. A disparity between style and substance can have its… More >>
Lyon Opera Ballet’s Postmodern Whirlwind Blows in From France
By Deborah Jowitt
People coming to see the Lyon Opera Ballet without foreknowledge might well be startled. The name sounds like a hangover from an earlier century, but during the 25 years it… More >>
Hit-Or-Miss Potty Mouth Insights in The Soup Show
By Eric Grode
If Anna Deavere Smith, Lydia Davis, and Margaret Cho were to take over as guest bloggers at Jezebel, their results might resemble The Soup Show, a hit-or-miss blend of potty-mouthed… More >>
Playing Politics In Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers and Lenin's Embalmers
By Alexis Soloski
Karl Marx famously claimed that world-historic facts appear twice—"the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce." Marx knew plenty about history, but little about theater. Human events are… More >>
By James Hannaham
IF YOUSE WANT A REAL SENSE OF WHAT IT'S LIKE TO SIT THROUGH THE AMORALISTS' HAPPY IN THE POORHOUSE, IMAGINE THAT I AM UP IN YOUR FACE, SHRIEKING THIS REVIEW… More >>
By Christopher Grobe
How could a play featuring a golden, ruby-studded nasal prosthesis ultimately be so humorless? Rudolf II, which chronicles the long slow demise of a bipolar, polyamorous Holy Roman Emperor, may… More >>
A memorial for playwright H.M. "Harry" Koutoukas will be held on Sunday March 28, at 2 p.m. at Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square South. Koutoukas, a veteran of New… More >>
Brian Conley: 'Miniature War in Iraq . . . and Now Afghanistan'
By Alan Gilbert
At the same time a number of Chelsea galleries closed their doors due to contractions in the art market and larger economy, Williamsburg's Pierogi was adding a second location. Dubbed… More >>
Paul Taylor, The Beloved Renegade
By Deborah Jowitt
Paul Taylor's turning 80 this year, but more impressive is the fact that in the 56 years since he started a company, he has choreographed more than 130 works. Eighteen… More >>
