Robert Israel
Our critics salute the year’s outstanding productions, with some commentary on the state of the art.
Our critics salute the year’s outstanding productions.
Despite some missteps and miscasting bumps along the way, this staging faithfully captures playwright August Wilson’s searing poetic vision.
“A lot of censorship in America has to do with the impulse to shut down what women have to say, literally hanging and burning them as witches to shut them up.”
The current rage for inserting the personal/confessional in everything from cookbooks to literary criticism can go too far.
A singular muscularity infuses these short stories, a confidence that astonishes.
Jake Cohen is “modern” in that he takes a contemporary approach at spreading the gospel; he is an expert at using social media.
Our theater critics pick some of the outstanding productions of a year truncated by COVID-19.
The late Terrence McNally was more than just a masterful playwright. He also forged new roads in musical theater.
Theater Feature: Favorite Stage Productions of 2023
Our theater critics salute the year’s outstanding productions.
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