Richard Greenberg

Far From Heaven Stays Strictly Earthbound; Classic Stage Company Revives Caucasian Chalk Circle

In a Bumper Year, Four New American Plays Won Obies; Eight More Were Strong Contenders

The plays are the thing

FORBIDDEN LOVE

Far From Heaven becomes a musical

Greenberg's Assembled Parties (Sort of) Celebrate Christmas; Odets gives Hollywood A Big Knife

Losing their religion

'Modern Family' Star On Gay Terminology, Gurl

Spring Arts Guide Picks: Theater

Breakfast At Tiffany's On Broadway: Not A Full Meal

Richard Greenberg's adaptation of Truman Capote's classic novella Breakfast at Tiffany's turns out to be earnest, talky, and rather lifeless despite its good intentions. Telling the story of a chirpy socialite/hooker in 1943 New York and her interaction with a writer who isn't exactly straight, thi ... More >>

Breakfast at Tiffany’s: What the Cat Dragged In

Cast and creatives make a dog’s dinner of Truman Capote's novella

FINE DINING

Richard Greenberg invites 
you to dinner

Drag Queens and Gay Sex Back on Broadway Where They Belong!

In Kinky Boots, Lola's straight! No, gay! But sexless!

Drag Queens And Gay Sex Are Back On Broadway Where They Belong! Here's The Dish

This week's column is a perky peek inside two of the shows that are helping make it a tres-gay season on Broadway: There's Kinky Boots, based on the movie about an enterprising drag queen who saves a shoe factory, with a Harvey Fierstein script and a Cyndi Lauper score.

I'm Talking Theater Tonight On Theater Talk

Snowbound? Bored? Canceled out of a show? Well, there's stimulating theater talk tonight to distract you. Susan Haskins, the gracious producer/cohost of Theater Talk, regularly invites Jesse Green, Patrick Pacheco, and myself to have a writerly discussion about who and what are coming down the Broa ... More >>

The Power to Heal Others, But Not Himself, in One Fall

Fuck You, Facebook! Thank You, Beyonce!

At Splash, the showtunes must go on.

In BAM's Cherry Orchard and MTC's American Plan, Mixed Emotions Produce Mixed Results

CHECK IN

Richard Greenberg’s vacation resort hosts unhappy love affairs and drama

A Holiday Trek through Shrek, Pal Joey, and ReWrite.

Season's greetings?

Renovated Dolls' Houses

Greenberg deconstructs an elegant past; Son dismantles a shattering present

Gentle Rain

Can a good play shelter a movie star from criticism's wet blanket?

Faust Things First

A mammoth production of the epic verse gets a stateside staging

The Eisenhower Error

Greenberg's Girl bears an amazing resemblance to summer-stock romances of the '50s

Fall Theater Preview

Design for Closeting

Baitz's Paris Letter shows what happens when long-cooped-up emotions get a little scope

Sketchy Conception

Recipe for drama: Take one celebrity bio, add wisecracks, sex, ethical debate. Slice thin.

A Public Farewell

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

Paging the Future

What's wrong with the present is self-evident, so suppose we look a little further ahead

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Listings

Subway Series

We're Henry IV, We Are, We Are: The Plays, in Brooklyn and Manhattan, Are the Things

Against His Will

Notes on the New Gay Predator

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The Rational Pastime

Greenberg Wins the Pennant; Haring Gets Marketed Again

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Pushy Queers

Two Plays and a Smackdown Augur a New Gay Image

Base Speculations

London Fields

New Dramas Make Connections—No Music Required

Sports

Pairing It Down

Pall in the Family

Hedda Shrinker

Parlez-Vous Français?

French Tries, by Romanian Eugene Ionesco, Come Alive

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

Waves of Faves

Thirty-Three New York Theater Types Offer Up Their Favorite Productions From the 1999–2000 Season

Screen Testiness

The Author's Voice