Theater
Broadway hasn’t seen a play this harrowing yet eminently enjoyable since August: Osage County.
The SpeakEasy Stage production is intimate and emotionally satisfying, highlighting the musical’s strengths — its sharply witty book, memorable songs, and heartbreaking characters.
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.
Frankenstein is a gripping amalgamation of the elemental and the technological.
Taylor Mac and Pirandello share the same goal: reveal the deadening vacuity at the heart of bourgeois society and the male ego.
Most of the time, Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s production of Macbeth is compelling.
This is a first-rate production of a true American classic.
Some may find the Lise Meitner’s story cathartic, others may think it is frustratingly familiar.
A comedy about slavery poses considerable challenges in our #blacklivesmatter times, but the characters bounce gleefully through endless rounds of verbal sparring.
Arts Commentary: Another View of “The Niceties”
To an extent, The Niceties does probe a fault line between the Democratic Party and the left: a boundary that will rupture sooner rather than later.
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