Roy Sorrels
In a scruffy old converted public school in Manhattan's East Village, Mabou Mines, a bit on the old and scruffy side itself, presents Lee Breuer's new play, Ecco Porco. Breuer was one of the founders, thirty-one years ago, of ...
Gerald Rabkin
In the shattered world of post-9/11, Tony Kushner may have found his time. Kushner has long embraced the often scorned label of "political playwright," always searching in the work of others and in his own work for the socio-political ...
Ben Stephens
If Glengarry Glen Ross is about one thing, it’s about talking. Not ‘talking’ in the sense of ‘talking over issues’ or ‘talking about feelings/relationships’, not talking as in ‘shooting the breeze’ or ‘chewing the fat’, but ugly, desperate, jittery ...
Roy Sorrels
When all the elements come together--a powerful play; sensitive, theatrically savvy direction; strong acting all the way down to the small roles; sets that fulfill perfectly their role of providing a believable world for the play; and costumes and ...
Harvey O'Brien
A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens adapted by John Mortimer Within three months of its first publication, Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol had already been adapted for the stage. By February 1844 it was running ...
Roy Sorrels
Playwright and university professor Eduardo Machado was part of an interesting and rather bizarre footnote to history. In 1961 the Peter Pan Project, organized by a Catholic bishop in Miami with the cooperation of the CIA, brought thousands of ...
Roy Sorrels
The Breaking Manager (1999), Sander Hicks a collection of three plays including The Breaking Light Playwright and university professor Eduardo Machado was part of an interesting and rather bizarre ...
Harvey O'Brien
Tom Murphy’s deconstruction of affirmational therapy and the culture of pseudo-psychoanalytical holism was first performed in 1983. The date is of no particular significance, as the play is devoid of specific social or political references. It is not without ...
Roy Sorrels
New York Theatre Workshop October 17 - November 18 The best way to enjoy a Flannery O'Connor short story is with a lazy afternoon, under a tree perhaps with the buzz of bees in ...
Arthur Lazere
James Joyce had a theory of "epiphanies" which posited that seemingly insignificant incidents can be the source of profound insights. The Dead, his short story first published in 1914, is his theory proven. In its brief length, a handful ...
