Theater June 2021
The best book on theater
On The Season, by William Goldman.
Department: “Theater”
Theater May 2021
Pirandello’s “play of the century”
On Six Characters in Search of an Author.
Theater April 2021
The tragedy of Mike Nichols
A review of Mike Nichols: A Life, by Mark Harris.
Theater March 2021
The most grateful Englishman
On a new biography of the playwright Tom Stoppard.
Theater February 2021
Guys & dolls
A review of Singular Sensation: The Triumph of Broadway, by Michael Riedel.
Theater September 2020
Chekhov’s 2020 vision
On the Russian doctor’s enduring diagnoses of societal ills.
Theater June 2020
The puritan bohemian
On the fame of George Bernard Shaw.
Theater May 2020
Absolutely Agate
On the theatrical life of James Agate.
Theater April 2020
The United States of Shakespeare
On Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us About Our Past and Future by James Shapiro.
Theater March 2020
Sex, race, ethnicity
On Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice at the Signature Center, A Soldier’s Play at the American Airlines Theater, and West Side Story at the Broadway Theater.