The generally enjoyable Bedlam production of Pygmalion doesn’t quite settle for the glucose bait.
Theater Review: Two Cheers for Manual Cinema’s “The End of TV”
I strongly advise you to explore the wizardry of Manual Cinema — its potential is considerable.
Theater Review: “Miss You Like Hell” — A Lukewarm Road Trip
This is yet another sentimental exercise in the mechanics of mother/daughter rapprochement
Theater Review: Return to “A Doll’s House”? — You Can’t Go Home Again
A Doll’s House, Part 2 comes off as a return to the barn — after the door has fallen off its hinges.
Theater Review: “Small Mouth Sounds” — Small Change
Despite its promising premise, Bess Wohl’s script is yet another wan exercise in genial domestic comedy.
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Theater Review: “The Prisoner” — A Parable, Incomplete
Peter Brook has decided to be more than a little stubbornly anti-theatrical in The Prisoner.
Theater Review: “The Roommate” — Iowan Yin Yang
The moral of Jen Silverman’s yarn is straightforward enough: we are in a country where self-transformation has become an end in itself, re-invention a default response to omnipresent banality.
Cultural Commentary: “The New Yorker” and The Fat Cats — Teaming Up
Yes, The New Yorker cover pillories the superrich as they ignore the pixie proletariat at their feet. But so what?
Theater Review: “The Peculiar Patriot” — All Heart
The Peculiar Patriot may say it is about making us feel the human price of mass incarceration in America, but there is more than a little True Romance in the mix.