Email Author Michael Feingold

Awards

• 2010 - The Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism/Columbia University

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2012 Stories by Michael Feingold

• Title and Deed: The Wanderer

  published May 23, 2012

  So we're in a theater, to see a show, and this guy wanders onto the bare stage and starts talking. He's come there to talk to us—more... More >>

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  OBIES 2012: Don't Dress for Theater

  published May 23, 2012

  Like most theater critics, I am a slow learner. (Why else would we still be theater critics?) So I didn't realize, until last month, that the... More >>

• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes; I Love a Millionaire

  published May 16, 2012

  I used to startle people by including Anita Loos's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes among the great American novels, along with The Scarlet... More >>

• The House of Mirth: Mrs. Wharton's Business School

  published May 16, 2012

  Even 107 years ago, entertainment producers' eyes lit up at the thought of getting their hands on a bestselling novel, and the Broadway... More >>

• Man and Superman: Shaw Does His Quirky

  published May 9, 2012

  "My plays must be acted," Bernard Shaw wrote to his director of choice, Granville Barker, "and acted hard." By this he meant not that they... More >>

• The Caretaker: The Odd Trio

  published May 9, 2012

  The three characters in Harold Pinter's 1960 play, The Caretaker (BAM Harvey Theater), all struggle, tempted alternately toward... More >>

• Leap of Faith: The Rainfaker

  published May 2, 2012

  Someday, I hope, medical science will advance far enough to invent a surgical procedure called lipofaith, on the order of liposuction, for the... More >>

• The Columnist: Neocon Job

  published May 2, 2012

  Over the decades, a great many people found reasons to dislike the syndicated political columnist Joseph Alsop (1910–1989). Beginning in... More >>

• Don't Dress for Dinner Could Offer Better Menu

  published May 2, 2012

  First, a little history, since farce always requires an elaborate setup: Back in the 1950s and '60s, when plays cut to one of several... More >>

• Nice Work If You Can Get It Gorges on Gershwin

  published May 2, 2012

  An innocent egomaniac and a natural-born showman, George Gershwin loved being the center of attention. At parties, his propensity for sitting... More >>

• One Man, Two Guvnors: How Funny, Really?

  published May 2, 2012

  One Man, Two Guvnors (Music Box Theatre) provides a classic instance of how tastes disagree. Some audience members will find it... More >>

• The Lyons Goes Cort-ing

  published May 2, 2012

  In the process of moving uptown from Off-Broadway’s Vineyard Theatre, Nicky Silver’s The Lyons (Cort Theatre) has shed the... More >>

• A Desegregated 'Streetcar'

  published April 25, 2012

  Desire comes in all hues, and so do the people of New Orleans, the city with a famously mixed and complicated racial history where Tennessee... More >>

• Ghost: The Musical's Unhappy Medium

  published April 25, 2012

  In one respect, and only in that one, Ghost: The Musical (Lunt-Fontanne Theatre), Broadway's attempt to reanimate the popular 1990... More >>

• In Masks Outrageous and Austere: An Attempted Rescue

  published April 18, 2012

  Almost every day of his adult life, Tennessee Williams wrote. He cultivated an indulgence in alcohol, in various prescribed and unprescribed... More >>

• Congealed Weapons in Massacre (Sing to Your Children)

  published April 18, 2012

  In near-total darkness, under a barrage of ear-destroyingly loud music, some kind of horrific act of violence is taking place, involving... More >>

• The Best Man: Political Party Animals

  published April 11, 2012

  The Broadway producer Jeffrey Richards has, if not a fixation for, at least a preoccupation with Gore Vidal's 1960 political comedy, The... More >>

• Evita: Sigh for Them, Argentina

  published April 11, 2012

  ¡Qué sorpresa! The revival of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Evita (Marquis Theatre) is a basically dull event.... More >>

• End of the Rainbow: See Judy Crawl

  published April 11, 2012

  Yes, she crawls. She barfs over the back of the couch. She imitates a dog lifting its leg to pee. She tugs at her much-younger... More >>

• Newsies: Homeless Boys Singing!

  published April 4, 2012

  Disney, an entity notorious over decades for its negative view of labor organizing, has created a pro-union musical. To be exact, it has... More >>

• Now. Here. This. Sips the Cosmos

  published April 4, 2012

  Have you heard the one about the guy who went to a musical expecting to learn the meaning of life? He saw Now. Here. This. (Vineyard... More >>

• The Big Meal: Our Wilder Ways

  published March 28, 2012

  Young people are falling in love again, kids are being bratty again, the old folks who parented the young people are being cranky and warping... More >>

• Jesus Christ Superstar: What's the Buzz?

  published March 28, 2012

  There exist, I suppose, people for whom Jesus Christ Superstar (Neil Simon Theatre) is a pivotal, maybe even a transcendent, work of... More >>

• It's Miller Time: Philip Seymour Hoffman in Death of a Salesman

  published March 21, 2012

  A mere 45 years ago, after seeing Mike Nichols's revival of Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes, the great critic Edmund Wilson wrote... More >>

• Once: Czech Your Eire

  published March 21, 2012

  See Once twice; it's tastier the second time around. Or, if you are the sort of person who resists the emotional appeal that comes with... More >>