Theater
Bill Irwin’s homage to Samuel Beckett explores what makes the writer so fascinating, even inspiring, for those who appreciate the knockabout beauty of his despair.
I’ve hated enough people,” Penny Arcade confessed, “I can’t hate anyone new until 2022.”
Are our theaters indifferent, craven, or complicit? Take your pick.
The script is not a conventional history of women’s suffrage: dramatic Jean Ann Douglass mobilizes satire, sexuality, suffering, and sarcasm.
As we grapple with building the brave new world of live theater in a Covid and post-Covid world, a few stray thoughts.
The play’s swift running give-and-take is chillingly beguiling, its myriad allusions arousing your curiosity as you consider the characters’ positions and conclusions yourself.
Taking action on even a modest number of these suggestions will undoubtedly shake up the current puerility of much of American theater criticism.
The opportunity to see the culture-changing Broadway phenomenon Hamilton on Disney Plus, sucked up all the arts oxygen over the Fourth of July weekend.
Take the poems slowly, enjoy the Cage-y silences, the concentrated words as they appear.
Theater Feature: An Interview with Benny Sato Ambush on Directing the Virtual Reading of Anthony Clarvoe’s “The Living”
“A play like The Living pricks the conscience of the country. It is the reason I wanted to produce and direct it.”
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