Email Author Michael Feingold

Awards

• 2010 - The Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism/Columbia University

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2011 Stories by Michael Feingold

• The Mountaintop: No Dream Here

  published October 19, 2011

  The real question about The Mountaintop (Jacobs Theatre), Katori Hall's fantasy on the last night of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s life,... More >>

• Man and Boy: On With the Showy

  published October 12, 2011

  Back in 1963, I decided to skip seeing Charles Boyer's performance in the New York premiere of Terence Rattigan's Man and Boy (American... More >>

• The Threepenny Opera Enters the Dead Zone

  published October 12, 2011

  To infuse new life into an old, familiar work, you start by going backward, searching inside the work for the initial impulses that created it.... More >>

• The Submission: The Playwright as Stinker

  published October 5, 2011

  Sharp-edged, fast, frequently funny, and extremely well-realized in Walter Bobbie's taut, speedy production, Jeff Talbott's The... More >>

• Lemon Sky: SoCal Locale

  published October 5, 2011

  The late Lanford Wilson, who died this past March, wrote restless plays that never stay put in simple categories: They create a constantly... More >>

• The Bald Soprano: Return of the Brain Frazzler

  published September 28, 2011

  Let me begin by quoting an expert: "When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, "it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more,... More >>

• Completeness Maneuvers Student Affairs

  published September 21, 2011

  All during Itamar Moses's Completeness (Playwrights Horizons), I couldn't help thinking of Jules Feiffer, the Pulitzer... More >>

• Play It Cool Has Some of That Jazz

  published September 21, 2011

  Mary's Hideaway, a jazz joint catering to an ultra-discreet gay clientele in 1950s L.A., must be enduring some rough times at the cash... More >>

• Follies: Dances With Ghosts

  published September 14, 2011

  Some musicals are pivotal, others seminal. Hair, when it opened on Broadway in 1968, was clearly pivotal: After it, the musical theater... More >>

• Temporal Powers Lets Some Eire In

  published September 7, 2011

  I could wish, and fairly often do, that I liked the Mint Theater's productions better. But when an institution fulfills a necessary function,... More >>

• Olive and the Bitter Herbs: Sour Power

  published August 24, 2011

  Bitterer than the horseradish on her Passover plate, the heroine of Charles Busch's amiably rickety new comedy, Olive and the Bitter... More >>

• Rent Gets a New Lease on Life

  published August 17, 2011

  Rent is back, and I for one don't feel inclined to complain. Naturally, I'm obliged to say that it isn't as good as the... More >>

• The Talls Falls Short

  published August 17, 2011

  The distressing downward spiral of Second Stage's play selection continues with Anna Kerrigan's The Talls (McGinn-Cazale Theatre). The... More >>

• Bitter Sweet: If Less Were All

  published August 10, 2011

  "Cowards die many times before their deaths," somebody says in Julius Caesar. But our time has changed all that. Today, at least if a... More >>

• Zach Braff Summers on 43rd with All New People

  published August 3, 2011

  Can Second Stage have installed some kind of aesthetic auto-shift on its mission statement? Every year, when the hot weather sets in, this... More >>

• The RSC's (Julius) Caesar Salad

  published August 3, 2011

  Director Lucy Bailey makes Rome a dark, noisy place. Her Royal Shakespeare Company production of Julius Caesar (Park Avenue Armory)... More >>

• The Patsy: Visionary David Greenspan Reanimates a 1920s Antique

  published July 27, 2011

  The Patsy (the Duke on 42nd Street) is one of the most remarkable, and one of the most peculiar, theater events I've ever witnessed.... More >>

• Death: Tunes to Die For

  published July 27, 2011

  Death was out sick when I attended the musical Death Takes a Holiday (Laura Pels Theatre), by Maury Yeston, Thomas Meehan, and the late... More >>

• King Lear: Not Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth

  published July 20, 2011

  Courtesy of the Lincoln Center Festival and the Park Avenue Armory, England's Royal Shakespeare Company has moved into the Armory for a... More >>

• Peter Brook's Magic Flute: It's Mozart, the Tasting Menu

  published July 13, 2011

  Though it demands abilities and forces usually found nowadays only in opera houses, Mozart's Magic Flute is emphatically not an opera.... More >>

• Master Class Looks at Callas Behavior

  published July 13, 2011

  "Forget all about me," says Maria Callas (Tyne Daly), preparing to conduct the titular activity of Terrence McNally's 1995 play, Master... More >>

• Measure for Measure: Sex and the Citizens

  published July 6, 2011

  "The law hath slept," declares the Duke of Vienna, but he himself hasn't been doing so well in that department—at least not according to... More >>

• Unnatural Acts: The School for Scandal

  published June 29, 2011

  While we're celebrating New York's legalization of same-sex marriage, Unnatural Acts (Classic Stage Company) has arrived, with perfect... More >>

• All's Well That Ends Well: Faults to Waltz to

  published June 29, 2011

  They call it a "problem play," and I agree: Normally, All's Well That Ends Well (Delacorte Theater) gives me more problems, with fewer... More >>

• 4000 Miles Wonders What's Left

  published June 22, 2011

  Amy Herzog is an intelligent, delicately articulate writer with a piquant, arresting subject: the waning days of the far-left tradition in... More >>