Email Author Jacob Gallagher-Ross

2011 Stories by Jacob Gallagher-Ross

• Titus Andronicus Has Blood on Its Hands. A Lot of It.

  published December 14, 2011

  Titus Andronicus must be the revengiest revenge tragedy ever written. As the corpses accumulate, you can see Shakespeare vying to outdo his... More >>

• Cillian Murphy Does Misterman Big

  published December 7, 2011

  It takes a pretty feverish imagination to see terminal turpitude in the humdrum goings-on of a rural Irish village. But Thomas Magill (Cillian... More >>

• Fragments Leaves Beckett in Pieces

  published November 16, 2011

  Peter Brook and Samuel Beckett ought to be a match made in minimalist heaven. Beckett, always attracted by the rigorous writerly discipline... More >>

• The Secret Death of Puppets: Beware Chairs Seeking Forbidden Knowledge!

  published November 9, 2011

  If you stop to think about it, puppetry is a pretty eerie business: temporarily endowing little armatures of cloth and wood with life, movement,... More >>

• Love's Labor's Lost Plays With Shakespeare at the Public

  published November 2, 2011

  Although it’s one of Shakespeare’s comedies, many of Love’s Labor’s Lost’s baroque jokes ain’t exactly... More >>

• Les Enfants de Paris and Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice: A Musical Try a Novel Approach

  published October 5, 2011

  There’s a proud tradition of making sprawling novels into blockbuster musicals (Les Miz, Phantom, the list goes on). Would-be... More >>

• Septimus & Clarissa: Sign of the Woolf

  published September 21, 2011

  In Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, set on a London day in June just after the end of the first World War, Clarissa Dalloway's mind drifts... More >>

• Sweet and Sad Takes 9/11 to Brunch

  published September 14, 2011

  Richard Nelson's allegorical Apple family—yup, as in Big—only gets together for momentous national occasions. Last year, in That... More >>

• Romeo and Juliet: Lovers in an Armory

  published July 13, 2011

  One of the best things you can say about a Shakespeare production is that it makes you hear familiar lines with fresh ears. This reviving... More >>

• EST Goes Marathoning

  published June 1, 2011

  Fortune cookies are paragons of one-act dramatic construction: compact, self-contained, with a pleasing shape and a satisfying crunch. They end... More >>

• Bring Us the Head of Your Daughter: The Theater of Screech

  published March 30, 2011

  According to music lore, the infamous heavy metal shredder Yngwie Malmsteen, when asked by an ear-fried studio tech to tone down the sonic blitz,... More >>

• Dr. Frankenstein's Magical Creature Does Not Come to Life

  published March 23, 2011

  Let’s give Dr. Frankenstein the benefit of the doubt. While stitching those mismatched corpse pieces together, he was thinking about... More >>

• The Rover Invades the World Financial Center

  published March 9, 2011

  Someone at New York Classical Theatre took The Rover’s title a little too literally. The company’s version of Aphra Behn’s... More >>

• Invasion! Takes Over Walkerspace

  published February 23, 2011

  As Invasion! begins, black-clad actors start reciting stilted poetry about an Arab corsair named Abulkasem. My heart sinks. Could this... More >>

• A Couple of Poor Polish-Speaking Romanians Talk (and Talk) Eastern Europe

  published February 16, 2011

  I’m no expert on Eastern European ethnic humor, but judging by Dorota Maslowska’s A Couple of Poor Polish-Speaking Romanians,... More >>

• Mosheh Offers a Testament to. . . Something

  published February 2, 2011

  With the near-revolutionary uproar in Egypt lately, President Mubarak must be feeling a bit like Pharaoh, his ancient predecessor: beset on all... More >>

• Age Out Hands You Its Whine List

  published January 19, 2011

  Ever go to a bar with a bunch of people who all work together, who then proceed to gripe about their petty workplace grievances the whole time? It... More >>

• Belarus Free Theatre's Being Harold Pinter Is No Slight Ache

  published January 5, 2011

  The almost suicidally daring Belarus Free Theatre, who, while at home in Europe’s last remaining dictatorship, perform under constant threat... More >>

• Jomama Jones Returns to the U.S.A.

  published January 5, 2011

  There are few things as genuinely cheering as watching a motley group of New Yorkers spontaneously bump and shake together on a chilly evening. So... More >>