Theater

  • OBIES 2012: Don't Dress for Theater

    A week of Broadway torture proves that hope lies with the scruffy

    By Michael Feingold

    Like most theater critics, I am a slow learner. (Why else would we still be theater critics?) So I didn't realize, until last month, that the... More >>

  • OBIES 2012: What Off-Broadway Needs Now

    We asked Off- and Off-Off theatermakers what they feel the scene is missing

    By Alexis Soloski

    It would seem churlish to say that Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway lack for anything. We have more than 200 brick-and-mortar theaters (to say... More >>

  • Cock: Fight Club

    Strife is on the menu of a Royal Court import

    By Alexis Soloski

    British playwright Mike Bartlett likes a good fight: between husbands and wives, parents and children, teachers and students, Europe and the... More >>

  • Title and Deed: The Wanderer

    The Signature Theatre mounts Will Eno's latest monologue

    By Michael Feingold

    So we're in a theater, to see a show, and this guy wanders onto the bare stage and starts talking. He's come there to talk to us—more... More >>

  • Obie Night 2012: New Guard, Loud Crowd, Devil Puppet

    By James Hannaham

    To the late Alien Comic: Hey, Tom Murrin! I don't think performance artists go to heaven, so I hope it's fun to haunt the P.S. 122 dressing room... More >>

  • Gentlemen Prefer Blondes; I Love a Millionaire

    Lorelei Lee's diamonds now adorn new-style material girl Megan Hilty

    By Michael Feingold

    I used to startle people by including Anita Loos's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes among the great American novels, along with The Scarlet Letter, Moby... More >>

  • The 2012 Obie Award Winners

    By Village Voice Staff

    The 57th Annual Obie Awards were given out at a ceremony tonight, May 21st, at Webster Hall in the East Village. The awards were presented by... More >>

  • pool (no water) Dives Into Envy

    One Year Lease Company stages the New York premiere of a Mark Ravenhill play

    By Tom Sellar

    Resentment is one seriously nasty byproduct of art-world success—not for the rare thriving artist but for still-struggling friends who get... More >>

  • The House of Mirth: Mrs. Wharton's Business School

    A noted novel's stage adaptation gets a revival

    By Michael Feingold

    Even 107 years ago, entertainment producers' eyes lit up at the thought of getting their hands on a bestselling novel, and the Broadway eminence... More >>

  • Man and Superman: Shaw Does His Quirky

    At the Irish Rep, romantic comedy gets a little Nietzsche

    By Michael Feingold

    "My plays must be acted," Bernard Shaw wrote to his director of choice, Granville Barker, "and acted hard." By this he meant not that they should... More >>

  • The Living Theatre Continues Struggle to Keep Its Home

    The longstanding alternative theater company yet to meet emergency fundraising goal

    By Eric Sundermann

    The Living Theatre, a staple of the downtown arts scene since 1947, is still looking to the public to help stay alive. Last week, the company... More >>

  • Lonely, I'm Not Deserves Your Company

    Topher Grace and Olivia Thirlby star in Paul Weitz's comedy at Second Stage

    By Miriam Felton-Dansky

    “These short scenes are easier to write!” exclaimed an audience member in front of me, in an audible whisper, during Lonely,... More >>

  • Sophie Gets the Horns Heads Back to College

    The Riot Group stages their latest at the Incubator Arts Project

    By Eli Epstein-Deutsch

    Take us then, back to the '90s. That certain mix of textures, colors, sounds. Kurt and Courtney holed up in a hotel room somewhere, your ironic... More >>

  • American Jornalero Goes to the Corner

    INTAR mounts a new play by Ed Cardona Jr

    By Eric Sundermann

    It goes without saying that race relations are still a large problem in this country. Race issues are delicate, complicated, and tend to be... More >>

  • Evolution: The Whale Inside

    59E59 Theaters hosts Patricia Buckley's one-woman show

    By Eric Sundermann

    Things change. We graduate college. We celebrate birthdays. We lose our jobs. We get new jobs. This is the way life happens. Change can be simple... More >>

  • The Caretaker: The Odd Trio

    Jonathan Pryce stars in a Pinter revival at BAM

    By Michael Feingold

    The three characters in Harold Pinter's 1960 play, The Caretaker (BAM Harvey Theater), all struggle, tempted alternately toward generosity and... More >>

  • Leap of Faith: The Rainfaker

    Broadway gets another dose of that old-time religion

    By Michael Feingold

    Someday, I hope, medical science will advance far enough to invent a surgical procedure called lipofaith, on the order of liposuction, for the... More >>

  • The Lyons Goes Cort-ing

    Nicky Silver and Linda Lavin make the move uptown

    By Michael Feingold

    In the process of moving uptown from Off-Broadway’s Vineyard Theatre, Nicky Silver’s The Lyons (Cort Theatre) has shed the opening... More >>

  • The Columnist: Neocon Job

    David Auburn and John Lithgow tackle Joseph Alsop

    By Michael Feingold

    Over the decades, a great many people found reasons to dislike the syndicated political columnist Joseph Alsop (1910–1989). Beginning in... More >>

  • A Midsummer Night's Dream Heads Back Into the Woods

    Tony Speciale helms an antic production at Classic Stage Company

    By Alexis Soloski

    Lord, what fools these mortals be! With the wealth of old and new playscripts cluttering drama libraries, why do so many productions return to... More >>

  • Don't Dress for Dinner Could Offer Better Menu

    The Roundabout tries a comedy by Boeing-Boeing's Marc Camoletti

    By Michael Feingold

    First, a little history, since farce always requires an elaborate setup: Back in the 1950s and '60s, when plays cut to one of several... More >>

  • Nice Work If You Can Get It Gorges on Gershwin

    Matthew Broderick, Kelli O'Hara, Judy Kaye, and lots and lots of George

    By Michael Feingold

    An innocent egomaniac and a natural-born showman, George Gershwin loved being the center of attention. At parties, his propensity for sitting... More >>

  • One Man, Two Guvnors: How Funny, Really?

    Richard Bean versus Carlo Goldoni in director Nicholas Hytner's British import

    By Michael Feingold

    One Man, Two Guvnors (Music Box Theatre) provides a classic instance of how tastes disagree. Some audience members will find it instantly and... More >>

  • Uncle Vanya: Rural Postmodernism at Here

    Target Margin does its take on Chekhov

    By Jacob Gallagher-Ross

    Partway through David Herskovits’s new production of Uncle Vanya (now playing at Here), a performer walks around, ring-girl style, with a... More >>

  • A Desegregated 'Streetcar'

    The Tennessee Williams classic gets a multiethnic Broadway staging

    By Michael Feingold

    Desire comes in all hues, and so do the people of New Orleans, the city with a famously mixed and complicated racial history where Tennessee... More >>

  • An Early History of Fire Goes on the Road to 1962

    The New Group premieres the latest from David Rabe

    By Alexis Soloski

    Some theater companies favor certain kinds of sets: well-appointed parlors, say, or barren wastelands or classical porticoes. But the New Group... More >>

  • Festen Toasts Family Misery

    St. Ann's Warehouse hosts TR Warszawa's version of the Thomas Vinterberg film

    By Miriam Felton-Dansky

    Towards the end of Festen—TR Warszawa’s elegant, bleak stage adaptation of the 1998 Thomas Vinterberg film—the character... More >>

  • christopher marlowe's chloroform dreams Tries Elizabethan Noir

    The infamous playwright meets Raymond Chandler in the Red Room

    By Jacob Gallagher-Ross

    I’ve never been chloroformed myself, but I’m guessing the experience of watching Katharine Sherman’s bloated, pretentious... More >>

  • Ghost: The Musical's Unhappy Medium

    A noisy adaptation glitzes up a famous '90s film

    By Michael Feingold

    In one respect, and only in that one, Ghost: The Musical (Lunt-Fontanne Theatre), Broadway's attempt to reanimate the popular 1990 movie, sets a... More >>

  • The Foreplay Play Wants to Fool Around

    A frolicsome foursome in a real Brooklyn apartment

    By Jacob Gallagher-Ross

    Polyamory is a tricky business. And so is site-specific theater. Thus the twin morals of Mariah MacCarthy’s soapy dramedy, The Foreplay... More >>

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The Richter Scale The Richter Scale
By James Hannaham

What Postmasters Gallery curator Magda Sawon calls the "canonization" of Gerhard Richter inspired her to respond with a witty, stimulating group show, "Richteriana." The ongoing frenzy over the 80-year-old German… More >>

Summer Books Guide: Padgett Powell's <i>You & Me: A Novel</i> Summer Books Guide: Padgett Powell's You & Me: A Novel
By James Hannaham

"They have Hendrix-ed me," says cult-hero novelist Padgett Powell of the unlikely wild success in the U.K. of his last book, The Interrogative Mood, a novel composed entirely of questions.… More >>

Summer Dance Guide: 'Borrowed Light' and More Summer Dance Guide: 'Borrowed Light' and More
By Deborah Jowitt

New York City Ballet June 5 through 10 American Ballet Theatre June 21 through 23 What better ballet to see in June—preferably with a lover—than one based on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and… More >>

Summer Theater Guide: Alan Cumming Prepares a Lincoln Center <i>Macbeth</i> Summer Theater Guide: Alan Cumming Prepares a Lincoln Center Macbeth
By Alexis Soloski

Twenty-seven years ago, Alan Cumming made his professional theater debut, appearing as Malcolm in a Glaswegian Macbeth. This summer, he'll return to the tragedy, reprising his turn as the disinherited… More >>

OBIES 2012: Don't Dress for Theater OBIES 2012: Don't Dress for Theater
By Michael Feingold

Like most theater critics, I am a slow learner. (Why else would we still be theater critics?) So I didn't realize, until last month, that the Broadway League was trying… More >>

OBIES 2012: What Off-Broadway Needs Now OBIES 2012: What Off-Broadway Needs Now
By Alexis Soloski

It would seem churlish to say that Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway lack for anything. We have more than 200 brick-and-mortar theaters (to say nothing of parks, repurposed churches, and semi-legal lofts),… More >>

<i>Cock</i>: Fight Club Cock: Fight Club
By Alexis Soloski

British playwright Mike Bartlett likes a good fight: between husbands and wives, parents and children, teachers and students, Europe and the Middle East. He likes a bad one better. In… More >>

Summer Art Guide: 'Ghosts in the Machine' Summer Art Guide: 'Ghosts in the Machine'
By Christian Viveros-Faune

Ellsworth Kelly June 5 through September 3 America's foremost abstract painter, it turns out, is a closet realist. Who knew? This summer, the Met will have proof of Kelly's apostasy in the… More >>

<i>Title and Deed</i>: The Wanderer Title and Deed: The Wanderer
By Michael Feingold

So we're in a theater, to see a show, and this guy wanders onto the bare stage and starts talking. He's come there to talk to us—more exactly, he's there… More >>

Obie Night 2012: New Guard, Loud Crowd, Devil Puppet Obie Night 2012: New Guard, Loud Crowd, Devil Puppet
By James Hannaham

To the late Alien Comic: Hey, Tom Murrin! I don't think performance artists go to heaven, so I hope it's fun to haunt the P.S. 122 dressing room or the basement… More >>


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