George Bernard Shaw

Free Will Astrology: March 21-27, 2012

The Philanderer: Sex Versus Shaw

A rarely produced early work shows GBS in a playful mood

This Week in the Voice: Philip Glass, an East Village Voice

This week in the Voice, out today: Steven Thrasher profiles Philip Glass, tracing the 75-year-old composer's career and love for New York, "Regardless of success, neither Glass's life nor his music have ever abandoned their East Village sensibilities. He worked as a cab driver and furniture mover un ... More >>

Sean O'Casey's The Silver Tassie

This week in the Voice, out today: Steven Thrasher profiles Philip Glass, tracing the 75-year-old composer's career and love for New York, "Regardless of success, neither Glass's life nor his music have ever abandoned their East Village sensibilities. He worked as a cab driver and furniture mover un ... More >>

Classic Controversial Ivory Snow Commercial

​ I just appeared in a George Bernard Shaw play with Andrea Marcovicci, the acclaimed singer/actress! And in the course of chitchat, Andrea reminded me that she starred in a controversial Ivory Snow commercial several decades ago. In between rehearsal and showtime, I frantically looked it up ... More >>

Tony Winner And I Act Out Suzanne Somers' Poetry

​My life is geting even kooky-crazier than before, with wild leaps from highbrow to lowbrow and back--and I love it! Last night, I was in a Project Shaw reading of George Bernard Shaw's Getting Married, starring names like Emily Skinner, Andrea Marcovicci, and Cady Huffman, the Tony winner fr ... More >>

OBIES 2011: Take This Job and Fill It

The theater is missing some major figures. Who'll step up now?

PAGING DR. KEVORKIAN

Tony Kushner takes a fresh look at the assisted-suicide debate

Free Will Astrology: February 23 through March 1, 2011

Tony Kushner takes a fresh look at the assisted-suicide debate

Free Will Astrology: February 16 through 22, 2011

Tony Kushner takes a fresh look at the assisted-suicide debate

Eugene McCarthy Gets a Harsh Heckling by Edward Albee

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 28, 1971, Vol. XVI, No. 4 The Candidate From Parnassus By Frederic Morton We're in 1971 and Presidential noises are loud in the land, coming from guys good and bad. I'm trying to remember the sounds of a Great Good Guy, hear ... More >>

Spectacle, Sex, and Subversive Cinema in Russellmania

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 28, 1971, Vol. XVI, No. 4 The Candidate From Parnassus By Frederic Morton We're in 1971 and Presidential noises are loud in the land, coming from guys good and bad. I'm trying to remember the sounds of a Great Good Guy, hear ... More >>

BIG BANG

George Bernard Shaw's Misalliance

One More River

George Bernard Shaw's Misalliance

Crazy Yankee Chick: Wait, so how is this anything like the 2004 ALCS?

​The 2009 ALCS and 2004 ALCS are practically mirror images of each other. Indistinguishable. Talk about carbon copies! I haven't seen this level of uncanny similarity since watching Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes in White Men Can't Jump. Yeah, that's about how alike these two series ar ... More >>

My Biggest Career Mistakes, Part Three (A 500-Part Series)

In '07, I was asked to be the narrator for an evening of two George Bernard Shaw one-acters, as part of Project Shaw's ongoing series, which organizer David Staller shrewdly studs with press people in key roles. I'd done this before, playing a brief part in Androcles and the Lion and didn't embarras ... More >>

The Fall of London: A Theater Roundup

In '07, I was asked to be the narrator for an evening of two George Bernard Shaw one-acters, as part of Project Shaw's ongoing series, which organizer David Staller shrewdly studs with press people in key roles. I'd done this before, playing a brief part in Androcles and the Lion and didn't embarras ... More >>

Anti-Communist Polemic The Soviet Story Cuts and Pastes from History

In '07, I was asked to be the narrator for an evening of two George Bernard Shaw one-acters, as part of Project Shaw's ongoing series, which organizer David Staller shrewdly studs with press people in key roles. I'd done this before, playing a brief part in Androcles and the Lion and didn't embarras ... More >>

Sexes Duke It Out (Again) in All Aboard the Marriage Hearse

This play actually resembles a bad sitcom written by George Bernard Shaw

Rake's Non-Progress

Shaw's satiric Satanist suffers some seriousness

Water Torture

Shopping for a bathing suit is hell

Two Hot to Handle

I talked to Dancy, but Christian bailed. Paris Hilton got out, too.

Class Action

The Epic Theatre Center moves Shaw to Harlem

March Mildness

Kline's Lear goes for rationality; Molina's Katz makes madness unreasonable

The Kids Are Not Alright

Sundance kiddie porn, from Dakota’s rape to Cusack’s daddy issues

Spoiler Alert

Seven years later, doc reopens the Nader debate: Is it all his fault?

Two If By Sea

A pair of non-English English plays forge into Broadway's deep waters

Even Bad Is Better 'Off'

If this season was any indication, the future is brighter Off-Broadway

Faust Things First

A mammoth production of the epic verse gets a stateside staging

The Second Civil War

Facing the facts in slavery satire's rewritten history

Theater

Facing the facts in slavery satire's rewritten history

Horoscope

Facing the facts in slavery satire's rewritten history

The Boys on the Side

Remembering anthropologist Tobias Schneebaum—and other members of an unconventional salon

Teacher Torture

Teens with guns and Faulknerian syntax: 'The Dear Boy' tries to give an old form a new spin.

Nightmare on Orchard Street

STUDIO AVAIL—SAFE LOC—GREAT LIGHT—1ST AND LAST MO REQ—AND EVERYTHING ELSE YOU'VE GOT

Acting Out

Dueling thesps reminisce on their melodramatic rivalry

Welcome to Lee Breuer's Dollhouse

Lee Breuer Goes Little—and Literal—With His Production of Ibsen's Classic

Beyond Neurosis

What Kind of Political Theater Are We Really After?

Horoscope

What Kind of Political Theater Are We Really After?

I Want Dandy

What Kind of Political Theater Are We Really After?

Horoscope

What Kind of Political Theater Are We Really After?

A Hard Raines Gonna Fall

The Triumph of Cynicism at the ‘Times’

The Mind Kings

Wanted: Public Intellectuals

Putting Some English on It

Wanted: Public Intellectuals

Nothing Left to Lose

The Changing Nature of Freedom

Our Theatrical Century

After 100 Years of Experiment, What'll the Theater Do for an Encore?

The Vice Man Cometh

New York's Art War Archives

Fame Fatale

New York's Art War Archives

Shaw Thing

New York's Art War Archives

Love's Labour's Loud

New York's Art War Archives