Arthur Miller

SOUTHERN COMFORT

Maggie the Cat is back

The Best Broadway Revivals I've Ever Seen

Broadway has a way of spewing back the familiar over and over again, because that sort of thing is generally less financially risky than something new. But sometimes the regurgitation takes on an inspired form that makes the revival come off fresh and illuminating. Let me give you two glorious exa ... More >>

Broadway Musicals I Never Want To See

And yet I can smell them coming... Bluesies: A scaled-down version of Newsies starring the Blue Man Group, this show won't have any singing (the guys never make a sound) and zero dancing (they're always carrying large, cumbersome tubes), but oh, those facial expressions!

Rangoon

TRAVELING MAN

Philip Seymour Hoffman comes to Broadway

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

Mike Nichols helms the Broadway revival of an American classic

This Week in the Voice: The Nonprofit 1 Percent

This week in the Voice, out today: Steven Thrasher discovers that some nonprofit managers in New York -- including at the Jewish Guild for the Blind -- aren't just rich, but among society's wealthiest: "Although he runs a nonprofit, Alan Morse is comfortably in the 1 percent that Occupy Wall Street ... More >>

New Life For Death of A Salesman: My Review

It's not the fault of anyone in the new Mike Nichols-directed production of the Arthur Miller classic Death of A Salesman that the definitive revival was done in 1999. That one, directed by Robert Falls, and starring a powerful Brian Dennehy as Willy Loman and a wrenching Elizabeth Franz as his wif ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: March 7-13, 2012

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The Naked City

Go-Go Harder proves that New York is the best place to go, go, go

Tony Kushner's Family Drama: My Review

​ In Tony Kushner's new play -- see title above -- even the hustler went to Yale. His characters, as always, are whip-smart, tossing off erudite references to classic authors, even as they do dumb things worthy of characters in plays by those same authors. The three-hour-25-minute-plus-inter ... More >>

Hotel Chelsea Now on the Market, Will Probably Go Upscale (Sigh)

​It's the end of an era. The Hotel Chelsea, which opened in 1884 -- where Sid Vicious may or may not have killed Nancy Spungen, Andy Warhol directed Chelsea Girls, and the names of residents frequently read like a who's who of '60s counterculture -- is now up for sale, reports the Wall Street ... More >>

Albee on Albee

At 82, he doesn't need reviving, but argues that his plays do

George Plimpton, William Styron Get Down for McCarthy

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. August 22, 1968, Vol. XIII, No. 45 A Concurrence of Poets, And One Who Stayed Home by Joe Flaherty Possibly realizing their influence on the Great Society and the mathematicians in Chicago, a group of writers and artists staged what th ... More >>

Dustin Hoffman, Jules Feiffer, Other NY Liberals Go GaGa for Eugene McCarthy

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. May 23, 1968, Vol. XIII, No. 32 The Limits of Power In a Garden of Delights by Michael C. D. Macdonald At first, things don't look good. Backstage, a network reporter complains, "no crowd releases, seats look a bit empty as the show st ... More >>

A View from the Bank: Playwrights Sick of Being Stiffed Finally Get Paid

​The difference between Arthur Miller and the playwrights of today? For one thing, they're not doing Marilyn Monroe. For another, Miller got decent coin for what he did in his day, as one of the few prominent guys who did. Now, playwrights have to fight for their cash where they can get it.

The Misfits

The Scottsboro Boys and Neighbors Display Racial Caricatures, Rain Serves Up Family Puzzles

GET A ROOM

A new play recalls the Hotel Chelsea's history

Miller's View From the Bridge, Coward's Present Laughter, and Foote's Orphans' Home Cycle Part 3

Sandra Bullock Drops From View!

Person-to-person with Sully Sullenberger, Michael Fassbender.

FORBIDDEN LOVE

Scarlett Johansson smolders Broadway

Boomerang!

The Good Negro and Incident at Vichy Hunt Conflict; Blithe Spirit Hunts Comedy

All My Sons Gets Gimmicky, To Be or Not to Be Goes Flat, and Kindness Rides the Downbeat

Roads to unwellness

Tom Cruise and Oprah at Katie's Play: A Review

Scientology Protesters Confront Holmes; Critics Confront Tale

IT'S TOMKAT TIME

Katie Holmes makes her Broadway debut

GHOSTS OF NEW YORK

The Chelsea Hotel celebrates its 125th anniversary

Men at Work

Two hucksters exploit the hopes and dreams of would-be musicians, but, hey, that's capitalism!

Comforter Zone

Mattress springs eternal: 50 years of who beds whom, from Tea and Sympathy to Tim Miller

'Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Impassioned Eye'

Arthur Miller

1915-2005

Arthur Miller, 1915-2005

Still a Contender

Guilt, self-justification, and Brando's career performance in Kazan's 50-year-old classic

Bitter Experience

Roundabout has means and opportunity, but its results may make you ponder its motives

Hello, Molly!

Showbiz Examined at the Jewish Museum

What's Opera Now, Doc?

While Broadway Lives the Puccinian Past, William Bolcom Gives the Met a New 'View'

Refracted Fairy Tales

Goat of Hope

When It Comes to Playwright Edward Albee, It's Feast or Famine

Hedda Shrinker

Sleep With Me

The Story About the Director

Albee! Miller! David Esbjornson Helms Them All.

Not-Right Triangles

Opera by the Book

Today’s Composers Search for Inspiration in Novels, Plays, and Even Films

Hesterectomy

Look Who Crossed a Picket Line

Why Paul Newman Nixed PEN's Gala

Durable Goods

Felt and Unfelt