Theater February 2021
Guys & dolls
A review of Singular Sensation: The Triumph of Broadway, by Michael Riedel.
Department: “Theater”
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.
Theater February 2020
Seems like old times
On Harry Townsend’s Last Stand at Stage II at City Center, The Inheritance at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, and MsTrial at New World Stages.
Theater January 2020
The bijou from Peru
On The Letters of Cole Porter, edited by Cliff Eisen and Dominic McHugh.
Theater December 2019
Preoccupations present & past
On The Sound Inside at Studio 54, Slave Play at the Golden Theatre & The Rose Tattoo at the American Airlines Theatre.
Theater November 2019
Not OK
On The Great Society at the Vivian Beaumont Theater, Oklahoma! at the Circle in the Square Theater, and Tootsie at the Marquis Theater.