Bill Marx
For all of its sound and fury and smoke, the CSC’s version of King Lear is solid rather than surprising or exciting.
In Kinship, dramatist Carey Perloff hasn’t found a language that conveys irrational longing.
An amiable musical revue about two guys who kick up their heels after global warming finally boils over.
Congratulations to the nominees and the awardees.
Had Daniil Kharms’ texts been available at the high tide of the Theater of the Absurd, his plays would be performed alongside those of Samuel Beckett and Eugene Ionesco.
The hope is that general readers and scholars will realize a more rounded comprehension of Jack Kerouac.
This wonder work from Canadian director Robert Lepage isn’t here for much time, alas.

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