In the fall of 1988, as part of what was called a "fringe series" dedicated to providing "an innovative alternative…
Gerald Rabkin
The extraordinary success of their dramatic collaborations in the 1930s has inextricably linked Kaufman and Hart as a classic tandem,…
As his fondness for magician Ricky Jay (among other things) reveals, David Mamet loves tricks and puzzles. Consider the mysterious…
In 1991, Dramaten, the Royal Dramatic Theatre of Sweden, brought to the Brooklyn Academy of Music a version of Ibsen’s…
"In my end," wrote T.S. Eliot in Four Quartets, "is my beginning." Lanford Wilson’s latest play, Book of Days, receiving…
In this year of the centenary of Richard Rodgers’ birth, it has been commonplace to observe the divided consciousness of…
Happy Days: The Production Notebook of Samuel Beckett The Cherry Lane Theatre, an intimate little playhouse located at the elbow…
It’s Lanford Wilson’s turn to be rediscovered. Like his great precursors, Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller, his dramatic reputation rests…
After a season’s hiatus, the musical megahit strikes again, following much the same formula as its triumphant predecessor, The Producers….
The fledgling Broadway season, having gotten under way with a solid revival of I’m Not Rappaport, follows with another two-character…
The Apollo Theatre on West 125th Street, in the center of Harlem’s major business district, has always represented something much…
"There are no second acts in American lives," wrote F. Scott Fitzgerald, which is often true but also often not….
"Write about what you know": We may safely assume that Thomas McCormack offered this familiar bit of sage advice to…
Of the new young playwrights who have emerged in the past decade, Rebecca Gilman is unique in that she has…