Ian Thal
In dramatist Nicolas Billon’s enigmatic but involving Greenland, the audience is called on to actively reconstruct what occurred in the characters’ lives.
Read MoreIsraeli dramatist Savyon Liebrecht’s new play A Case Named Freud is her most ambitious and dramatically satisfying yet.
Read MoreTo his credit, Garry Wills does not attempt to tell us what Shakespeare or his contemporaries “really meant,” nor does he suggest that there are ways that these plays ought be staged.
Read MoreShakespeare may have written Measure for Measure as a dystopian satire of what it would be like if the Puritans were ever to take over England.
Read MoreThe Real Thing’s discussion of linguistic precision may be telling now in ways that dramatist Tom Stoppard may not have anticipated.
Read MoreTo its considerable credit, Make My Heart Flutter is more existential, literary, and weird than most American comedies.
Read MoreCrack is too complex and nuanced to be reduced to an anti-psychiatric tract.
Read MoreSelf-production, I think, is for artists who also are entrepreneurs who have a burning desire to get their voice heard.
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Theater Commentary: On The Firing Of Theater J’s Ari Roth
The Theater J debacle points to the difficulties Jewish theater faces within the Jewish community.
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