Email Author Michael Feingold

Awards

• 2010 - The Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism/Columbia University

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2011 Stories by Michael Feingold

• Lysistrata Jones Is Greece, The Musical

  published December 21, 2011

  Among today's Broadway musicals, Lysistrata Jones (Walter Kerr Theatre) stands out, in ways both good and less. It's the only current... More >>

• Close Up Space: Rep Theater

  published December 21, 2011

  I'm sad, but not from Seasonal Affective Disorder. The fall season ended with Manhattan Theatre Club's opening Molly Smith Metzler's Close... More >>

• A Seasonally Adjusted Ghost Story

  published December 21, 2011

  The Marley was dead. The overpaid bank execs who inhabited that luxury apartment tower had all fled south for the holidays. Only Carl and Carol... More >>

• Maple and Vine: Bye-Bye 21st Century

  published December 14, 2011

  Over time, decades become generalizations. If you actually lived through 10 years' worth of the 1950s, as I did in my childhood, you're likely... More >>

• On a Clear Day You Can See Forever: Tangled Tuner Tune-up Try

  published December 14, 2011

  In 1973, the American Psychiatric Association officially removed homosexuality from its list of mental disorders. In 1974—according to... More >>

• Vaclav Havel, 1936-2011

  published December 14, 2011

  A playwright, a philosopher, a statesman, a hero—and an imp: That’s how I think of Vaclav Havel, who died on Sunday, December 18, aged... More >>

• Bonnie and Clyde: Robbers, Killers, Power Ballads

  published December 7, 2011

  I've thrown out most of my review of the new musical Bonnie & Clyde (Schoenfeld Theatre). The daily press has already delivered the bad... More >>

• Elective Affinities: Tea Without Sympathy

  published December 7, 2011

  I'm among the invited guests in a Fifth Avenue town house—a real one, not a set designer's mock-up. A pianist (Jonathan Bell) plays... More >>

• The Jazz Singer: Jews, Blackface, America

  published November 30, 2011

  'She's a big star in musical comedy," says the love-struck young man, showing his mother a photo of his sweetheart. "Ain't that a shame!" his... More >>

• Richard II: Game of Thrones

  published November 30, 2011

  Despite all its verbal beauty and psychological fascination, I've never wholly loved Shakespeare's Richard II (Pearl Theatre at City... More >>

• Blood and Gifts: The History Boys

  published November 23, 2011

  J.T. Rogers's Blood and Gifts (Newhouse Theater) is a big, imposing, serious play that attempts to tell the story of how the CIA moved... More >>

• Wild Animals You Should Know Heads Into the Woods

  published November 23, 2011

  Plays grow from motives in the playwright's mind, and one can't help thinking that something unpleasant connected with the Boy Scouts of... More >>

• Iron Curtain Gets Good Marx for Silliness

  published November 23, 2011

  Theatergoers of the world, unite in giggling. You have nothing to lose but your depression—though of course I mean only the emotional kind;... More >>

• Standing on Ceremony's Big Wedding Party

  published November 16, 2011

  Sometimes, it all seems to be merely a matter of word choice. Standing on Ceremony (Minetta Lane Theatre), a bill of nine short plays... More >>

• The Blue Flower: History Channeled

  published November 16, 2011

  The Blue Flower (Second Stage) is a big, ambitious, elaborately multi-mediated musical about art and war. Two artists who become best... More >>

• Milk Like Sugar: The Delusionists

  published November 9, 2011

  Midway through Kirsten Greenidge's sweet-natured, warmly compassionate Milk Like Sugar (Playwrights Horizons), its teenage heroine,... More >>

• Queen of the Mist's Barrel of Tunes

  published November 9, 2011

  On October 24, 1901, her 63rd birthday, Anna Edson Taylor (1838-1921), encased in a specially constructed barrel, became the first human being... More >>

• Venus in Fur: Hugh Dancy and Nina Arianda Take S&M Uptown

  published November 9, 2011

  The deafening thunderclap that opens David Ives’s Venus in Fur, in its new Broadway incarnation at Manhattan Theatre Club’s... More >>

• Hugh Jackman Spreads His "Fever" on Broadway

  published November 9, 2011

  Hugh Jackman’s persuasive. That’s his inexplicable secret. Obviously, it doesn’t hurt that he combines the qualities of a born... More >>

• Ch'inglish: The Disorient Express

  published November 2, 2011

  "I gotta use words when I talk to you," said T.S. Eliot's Sweeney Agonistes. As a translator myself, I know what he was agonizing about. Words,... More >>

• Asuncion: The Buddies and the Bride

  published November 2, 2011

  All through Jesse Eisenberg's Asuncion (Cherry Lane Theatre), I kept hearing in my head the TV producer in Wendy Wasserstein's The... More >>

• Relatively Speaking Is Relatively Lame

  published October 26, 2011

  Julian Schlossberg must be the most unwisely loyal friend in the history of Broadway producing. In 2000, he produced Taller Than a Dwarf,... More >>

• Sons of the Prophet: Inexplicable Tragic Pain, Season One

  published October 26, 2011

  Tragedy and comedy, the forms that kept the theater alive for so many centuries, are waning. Or maybe "blurring" would be a better word. Like... More >>

• Figaro Refurbished

  published October 26, 2011

  The two classic comedies that Beaumarchais devoted to the exploits of the trickster valet, Figaro, gave rise to two comic operas that became... More >>

• The Lyons Offers Glints of Silver

  published October 19, 2011

  Looking though they do like conventional realistic comedies, Nicky Silver's plays have, to a critic, a reassuring oddity. Never exactly about... More >>