Theater
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.
This is an opportunity to take in the early stirrings of Tennessee Williams’ talent as a playwright.
Not all of the production’s choices pay off, but Hamnet is a fascinating, one-of-a-kind play that strikes at a universal sense of longing.
We need a satire that takes Trump’s radical threat more seriously than Vicuña.
Stephen Adly Guirgis has written a fine play about those who would blur their minds rather than admit just how tired they are.
Straight White Men features plenty of conflict, but most of this wrangling comes in the form of tiresome, repetitive familial bickering.
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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