Email Author Michael Feingold

Awards

• 2010 - The Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism/Columbia University

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2013 Stories by Michael Feingold

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  COVER STORY

  In a Bumper Year, Four New American Plays Won Obies; Eight More Were Strong Contenders

  published May 22, 2013

  It was the worst of years; it was the best of years. I've never felt as much frustration and agony while theatergoing as I did during... More >>

• Lucas Hnath Fixates on Disney; Williams's Notebook of Trigorin Redecorates Chekhov

  published May 15, 2013

  Audiences love obsessives. Set a character with a crazy, unquenchable hunger center stage and they eat it up, whether the character's hunger is... More >>

• Richard Foreman and Mark Nadler Revive Tormented Erotic Memories

  published May 8, 2013

  Samuel (Rocco Sisto), the central figure of Richard Foreman's new work, Old-Fashioned Prostitutes (A True Romance) (Public Theater), has... More >>

• Tyson Takes a Trip to Bountiful; Imelda Dominates Here Lies Love; Midler Meddles as Sue Mengers

  published May 1, 2013

  Three obstinate females—one fictional and two historical—dominated my theatergoing last week. Tenacious women make great showy... More >>

• Greenberg's Assembled Parties (Sort of) Celebrate Christmas; Odets gives Hollywood A Big Knife

  published April 24, 2013

  The title of Richard Greenberg's new play, The Assembled Parties (Friedman Theatre), carries multiple meanings. Its "parties" are a pair... More >>

• Testament of Mary: Tóibín’s play gives Fiona Shaw endless opportunities for self-indulgence

  published April 24, 2013

  The onstage installation which the audience is invited to come up and inspect before the performance of Colm Toibin’s Testament of... More >>

• Nathan Lane Rules in The Nance

  published April 17, 2013

  Douglas Carter Beane's The Nance (Lyceum Theatre) has got what it deserves from Lincoln Center Theater: a first-rate production,... More >>

• Dropped Call

  published April 17, 2013

  Adoption, a touchy subject in all instances, is the ostensible topic of The Call (Playwrights Horizons), a small, tautly written,... More >>

• Kinky Boots Kicks Up Some Familiar High Heels; Buyer and Cellar Prowls Barbra's Mall

  published April 10, 2013

  I'd probably be able to discuss Kinky Boots (Hirschfeld Theatre) much more lucidly if I could only figure out in what decade it's meant... More >>

• The Loud New Musical Matilda Turns Dahl Into Dull

  published April 10, 2013

  Tentatively, I’d say that there might be some good work in Tim Minchin’s music and lyrics for the new musical Matilda... More >>

• Nora Ephron's Lucky Guy Digests Its Drama for You; NAATCO's Strindberg Diminishes a Dream

  published April 3, 2013

  Every play is a partisan act, giving only the playwright's view of the events it describes. When it's fiction, and the playwright has dreamed... More >>

• Hands on a Hard Body Sings of Tough Times; the Strouse-Adams Superman Spoofs a Tough World

  published March 27, 2013

  The new musical Hands on a Hard Body (Atkinson Theatre) opened just as City Center's Encores! series revived the 1966 musical It's a... More >>

• Vanya and Mound Builders Defy Categorization

  published March 20, 2013

  Christopher Durang's new play, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Golden Theatre), which has just transferred to Broadway from its... More >>

• The Flick and Talley's Folly Meet New People

  published March 13, 2013

  A quote I often find myself recalling comes from the sociologist Erving Goffman: "Nothing exists like another person for bringing alive the... More >>

• A Scan of Ann

  published March 13, 2013

  For Ann Richards, a Depression kid who rose to become an outspokenly liberal Democratic governor of Texas, everything in life was a challenge... More >>

• Passion and Cinderella Try Opposite Approaches to the Musical;Belleville Tries One's Patience

  published March 6, 2013

  Art is unjust. Its first rule is that there are no rules, and its second is that, if you don't have some to follow while you're creating it, a... More >>

• The Irish Battle in Katie Roche and Donnybrook!, Chinese-Americans in Hwang's Dance and the Railroad

  published February 27, 2013

  "I could hate the lovable Irish," sings the hero of the 1961 Broadway musical Donnybrook! (Irish Rep), "but I'm Irish myself." We all... More >>

• All in the Timing Whips Up Dessert; The Laramie Cycle Proves Deeply Worth Digesting

  published February 20, 2013

  Since we have some tougher matters to digest this week, let's sweeten the deal by starting with dessert. I recommend, as the most deliciously... More >>

• Bed-Bouncing Opera

  published February 20, 2013

  Onstage and off, the pleasures of sex have always played a major role in opera. While the lurid love lives of superstar divas kept the gossips... More >>

• Painfully Funny Playwrights: Luck of the Irish and The Good Person of Szechuan

  published February 13, 2013

  I should probably feel guilty. The world's in a horrible mess, and I'm having a wonderful time at the theater. When the world's in a mess, the... More >>

• Martin Moran Investigates His Inner Gentleness; Fiorello! Explores La Guardia's Showy Side

  published February 6, 2013

  Martin Moran's new solo work, All the Rage (Peter J. Sharp Theater), records his paradoxical search for an anger he doesn't feel. Moran has... More >>

• The Jammer Pits Idealism Against a '50s Roller Derby

  published January 30, 2013

  Proletarians are funny, apparently. Their low-class vulgarity and profanity makes us laugh because it's an equalizer: However refined we... More >>

• Scarlett Johansson Stars in a Blaring Revival of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

  published January 23, 2013

  Many people have worked very hard on the new production of Tennessee Williams's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Richard Rodgers Theatre), and I... More >>

• The Other Place's Bad Brain

  published January 16, 2013

  Mad scenes, as the opera composers of the bel canto era well knew, make great opportunities for divas. I had never previously thought of Laurie... More >>

• Picnic Gets Another Broadway Revival

  published January 16, 2013

  The Roundabout revival of William Inge's Picnic (American Airlines Theatre) is the sort of event that makes people wonder whether anyone... More >>