Eric Grode

Good Times, Bad Times

Four critics on the theaters they most like attending. And the ones not so much.

This Week in the Voice: The Obie Awards 2011

​This week in the Voice, Michael Feingold muses on the current state of theater, cost-cutting and all. "The arts can find ways out of their straitened financial situation," he says, going on to talk about the folks in New York theater who help, and have helped, give it meaning. Related: Eric G ... More >>

The Theater Season So Far . . .

From gory shoes to Wagner wrestling--a Village Voice critics roundtable

Metamorphosis Does Kafka by Way of Iceland

Things get buggy at BAM

This Week's Voice: Alice in Chains, Drive By Truckers, Regina Carter, Greenberg, and More

Alice in Chains get down. Photo by Santiago Felipe.​In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla sees the sorta resurrected Alice in Chains at Terminal 5, Stephen Deusner on the creative nonfiction of the Drive By Truckers' The Big To-Do, and Phil Freeman gets personal with jazz violinist Regina ... More >>

Voice Critics Debate the Theater Season So Far

Fringe Festival 2009 Reviews

This Week in the Voice

In the TV business, you sort of expect executives to pad their expense accounts, use station employees to run personal errands, and even do personal work for profit on company time and equipment. But it's a little different when taxpayers foot the bill. Tom Robbins lays out how the city's broadcas ... More >>

Three Top-10 Lists From the 2008-2009 Theater Season

This Week in the Voice

50 Cent and Rick Ross have a beef. Will it be settled with guns? Actually, it will more likely be settled with internet videos and rapid response units. What what? Erik Parker explains the new state of the art. Burial societies are supposed to assure their members of a grave when their time comes. ... More >>

This Week in the Voice

Remember the epidemic years of AIDS, when infected New Yorkers fought to get into untested drug trials? People fought to get infected babies into those trials, too. Some of them, because of the nature of the trials, were given placebo drugs. Some made it, some didn't. Not much has been written abo ... More >>

Authorial License Hangs Over Edmund White's Terre Haute

This Week's Voice: Hamell on Trial, T-Pain, Roberto Bolaño's 2666, Quantum of Solace, and More