Mare Winningham

Picnic Gets Another Broadway Revival

Out of the '50s basket

Picnic Is Back On Broadway: My Review

Everyone in William Inge's Pulitzer winning 1953 play Picnic seems to be yearning, striving, or regretting (which is really just another form of yearning). No-nonsense Flo Owens is still wounded by lost love; her husband--who wasn't all he was cracked up to be--left years ago. Meanwhile, her comely ... More >>

Holiday Guide: Arts Listings

Shakespeare High

Raising Cain in Todd Haynes's Mildred Pierce

HBO's Mildred Pierce: A Good Review!

​Joan Crawford must be rolling because Todd Haynes has apparently done a solid job in adapting Mildred Pierce into a five-hour HBO miniseries that will premiere on March 27. Cultural critic Brendan Lemon liked Kate Winslet in the part--she's right for it, and has the time to flesh it out--and ... More >>

Leftists, Ladies, and Lenders--After the Revolution, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, and The Merchant of Venice

New work from Amy Herzog and Jeffrey Lane and David Yazbek; plus Shakespeare hits Broadway

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