George Wolfe

Tom Hanks Tells Me What People Do To Him On The Subway

Here's all the chatter from Broadway's nominees

Nora Ephron's Lucky Guy Digests Its Drama for You; NAATCO's Strindberg Diminishes a Dream

Dramatic reductions

Tom Hanks In Nora Ephron's Lucky Guy: My Review

There's a lot of narration in Nora Ephron's last work, Lucky Guy, but that quickly becomes the point. A swirling drama set in various tabloid newsrooms starting in the 1980s, when scandal, corruption, and suicides ruled the headlines, this is first and foremost a play about the art of storytelling. ... More >>

The Submission: The Playwright as Stinker

Like its hero, Jeff Talbot's piece at MCC displays an authorial bait and switch

Ellen Barkin On Hollywood, AIDS, and The Normal Heart

So much to talk about!

The Normal Heart Soars: My Review

​Run to the Golden Theatre if you want to be reminded of how alive you are. You'll be moved, enraged, buzzed, and haunted. You will feel. By the end of the masterful revival of Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart--directed by Joel Grey and George C. Wolfe--the audience has been put through an e ... More >>

AIDS Drama Brings Out The Big Names

​The Broadway revival of Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart, about the early days of the AIDS crisis, is a powerhouse which I'll tell you more about on Thursday night when it officially opens. Meanwhile, let me recap last night's reception at the theater, where I mixed with various cast members ... More >>

A Free Man of Color and The Coward Cannonball Into 18th-Century History

Two new plays from Lincoln Center Theater

New York Anti-Violence Project Honors the Voice's Steven Thrasher

​Congrats to Voice staff writer Steven Thrasher, who has been awarded the 2010 Courage Award by the New York Anti-Violence Project -- the oldest organization in the nation that combats violence toward and within the LGBT community. We are proud to have this amazing writer (and human) in our mi ... More >>

JoAnne Akalaitis' The Bacchae at the Public

Sixteen years after a controversial departure, a return

New York Celebs Do Cell-Phone Audio Tours of Central Park

Usually we're all, "blar, we've been living here 100 years and we don't need an audio tour," even in museums where we don't know shit about shit, but here's something we might actually do: cell-phone audio commentary on city landmarks, performed by local celebrities. For example, "Yoko Ono introduce ... More >>

The Unashamed Romantic Goo of Nights in Rodanthe

'Wrestling With Angels'

A Streep Cart Named Desire

Meryl as Mother Courage: All there, but maybe a little short of Brecht

Monday 8/7 and Tuesday 8/8

A Public Display of Direction

Sunrise dawns on a new day at a downtown institution

2002

Building the Monolith

Angels in America, Part One: Millenium

Going Public

A new vision for America's flagship theater pays homage to the past

Theater

By way of an 'unreliable narrator,' LaBute builds an unconvincing play

An Award-Winning Solo Play Turned Into a Thronging HBO Nostalgia Fest

Public Approval

Oskar Eustis takes the reins from George C. Wolfe

A Radical Queer With an Eleven O'Clock Number in His Heart

The Little King

Size doesn't matter in a new production of Richard III at the Public Theater

NY Mirror

Tonya Pinkins as Caroline

Succeeding at the Public

Papp's restive ghost haunts the search for Wolfe's replacement

A Public Farewell

Lauded and embattled, George C. Wolfe calls it quits after 11 years

Southern Composure

In Kushner and Tesori's new musical, it's the appliances, not the hearts, that do the singing

Angels in a Changed America

From HBO to Off-Broadway: Tony Kushner's Epic Theater of Identity

NY Mirror

The Rational Pastime

Greenberg Wins the Pennant; Haring Gets Marketed Again

Defiance And The Boogie-Woogie

The State of Black Theater in New York

Branching Out

Emerging Dance Troupes Move to Their Own Beat

Neighborhood Bully

NY Mirror

Monster Talk

The 47th Annual Obie Awards

The Choler of Money

Ladies Who Punch

Lincoln in Whiteface

Don Cheadle and Jeffrey Wright, the Battling Brothers of ‘Topdog/Underdog’

Hamlet, Vegas, and a Big Black Box

On the occasion of the 45th Obie Awards, the Voice's Charles McNulty sat down with four theater directors--Graciela Daniele, Brian Kulick, Marianne Weems, and Evan Yionoulis--to hash out the state of their art here at the start of the 21st century

Hey Kids, the Musical Ain't Quite Dead Yet

Not the Same Ol’ Song and Dance

The Vice Man Cometh

New York's Art War Archives

Missing Persons

Silence of the Lambs

A 17-Year-Old Lesbian Brings Her Censored Play to New York

NY Mirror

Advice from the ball circuit: 'This category is about your face, not your booty. Now ride your broomstick out of here, baby gorilla.'

Exhibit #9

Broadways and Means

Theater of Fabulousness

Ebony Fashion Fair Turns 40