Email Author Michael Feingold

Awards

• 2010 - The Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism/Columbia University

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2012 Stories by Michael Feingold

• 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 >>

• Rutherford & Son: Bleaker House

  published March 14, 2012

  England’s industrial north is celebrated for its harsh winter weather, and for the equally harsh, tyrannically wintry Victorian... More >>

• Painting Churches: Canvasing the Family

  published March 14, 2012

  "At first glance," the opening stage direction of Tina Howe's Painting Churches (Theatre Row) tells us, the living room of the... More >>

• The Lady From Dubuque: Meet the Intruders

  published March 7, 2012

  Jo (Laila Robins) is dying. But that doesn't stop her and her husband, Sam (Michael Hayden), from having friends over to play party games in... More >>

• Carrie's Menstrual Show

  published March 7, 2012

  Yes, I saw Carrie the first time around. I'm the reviewer who described it as "the ultimate period musical." Well, in Manhattan Class... More >>

• Beyond the Horizon: It Got Dark Early

  published February 29, 2012

  Nobody, I sincerely hope, will ever revive Jesse Lynch Williams's Why Marry?, a slick, inanely talky comedy, flirting vapidly with... More >>

• Galileo: Star Witness

  published February 29, 2012

  It's an absurdly beautiful world you walk into when seeing Bertolt Brecht's Galileo at Classic Stage Company. Set designer Adrianne... More >>

• Blood Knot: Of Place and Race

  published February 22, 2012

  On an interactive video display in the spacious, lively upstairs lobby of the Signature Theatre's brand-new multi-theater complex, you can... More >>

• CQ/CX Supplies Facts, Needs Rewrite

  published February 22, 2012

  A story in a newspaper and a story onstage are two different things. A newspaper reports the facts—at least, one hopes it does—and... More >>

• Rx: A Prescription for Laughter

  published February 15, 2012

  All evening long, watching Kate Fodor's sharp, tenderly sardonic new comedy, Rx (59E59 Theaters), I kept thinking of Ernst Lubitsch.... More >>

• Myths and Hymns: Attic Recollections

  published February 15, 2012

  Adam Guettel's song cycle, produced in concert format at the Public Theater in 1998 as Saturn Returns, has now been reconfigured, with... More >>

• Look Back in Anger: Surly to Bed

  published February 8, 2012

  For the British theater, the historical importance of John Osborne's 1956 play, Look Back in Anger (Laura Pels Theatre), can't be... More >>

• The Philanderer: Sex Versus Shaw

  published February 1, 2012

  Probably the single most startling fact about George Bernard Shaw's early comedy The Philanderer (City Center Stage II)—just... More >>

• Wit: Bearing Agonies

  published February 1, 2012

  Margaret Edson's Wit (Friedman Theatre) is a handsomely structured, articulately written script; Cynthia Nixon is a fine, skillful,... More >>

• Kevin Spacey Growls Through Richard III

  published January 25, 2012

  I haven't previously found much to praise in either Kevin Spacey's acting or Sam Mendes's directing. So I arrived at Mendes's Bridge Project... More >>

• The Road to Mecca: Karoo for You

  published January 25, 2012

  Athol Fugard always seems to be writing two plays at once. Each Fugard play is an allegory—political, moral, aesthetic—that at the... More >>

• The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess: Broadway, You Is My Venue Now

  published January 18, 2012

  Either I am diagnosably schizophrenic, or there is something seriously out of kilter about the new revised edition of the opera that its... More >>

• How the World Began: Reason Goes Rural

  published January 11, 2012

  The Women's Project, temporarily housed in the small upstairs Peter Jay Sharp Theater at Playwrights Horizons, has started the new year... More >>

• The Peony Pavilion: Silken Spectacle

  published January 11, 2012

  In 1598, while Shakespeare was hitting his prime, the writer Tang Xianzu (1550–1616) produced one of China's touchstone works, The... More >>