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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 >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
