Robert Israel
Despite some missteps and miscasting bumps along the way, this staging faithfully captures playwright August Wilson’s searing poetic vision.
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“A lot of censorship in America has to do with the impulse to shut down what women have to say, literally hanging and burning them as witches to shut them up.”
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The current rage for inserting the personal/confessional in everything from cookbooks to literary criticism can go too far.
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A singular muscularity infuses these short stories, a confidence that astonishes.
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Jake Cohen is “modern” in that he takes a contemporary approach at spreading the gospel; he is an expert at using social media.
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Our theater critics pick some of the outstanding productions of a year truncated by COVID-19.
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The late Terrence McNally was more than just a masterful playwright. He also forged new roads in musical theater.
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An apocalyptic backdrop gives the play urgency, especially given the current worldwide struggle to contain the Corvid-19 virus, which has already claimed thousands of lives.
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If one of the aims of art is to create a distinctively imaginative world, than Pass Over succeeds in generating a landscape of devastation, a hopeless place filled with gaping wounds and visible scars.
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“I wrote those poems because I think people need to read the truth and to hear the truth about romantic sensibilities between gay people.”
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