Gerald Rabkin
In the fall of 1988, as part of what was called a "fringe series" dedicated to providing "an innovative alternative to mainstream theater,"a play opened in a tiny theater in downtown Brooklyn with an evocative and ambiguous title, Imperceptible ...
Roy Sorrels
Avenue Q is an unalloyed, call-all-your-friends-and-rave, delightful, joyous, enormously entertaining hit. Bring out the critic's big box of laudatory adjectives--in this show it would be a talking box perhaps called Big Box and it would sing a witty or ...
Arthur Lazere
Arthur Schnitzler was a physician who became a prolific writer, turning out plays, stories, novels and novellas over more than three decades spanning the turn of the 20th century. A contemporary of Freud's and deeply influenced by Freud's work, ...
Roy Sorrels
(photo from the Woolly Mammoth production of the play) One of the toughest roles for an actor to play is the loser. Woody Allen has made a career out of it; Jason Alexander ...
Harvey O'Brien
Online references on Arthur Miller Arthur Miller’s 1947 drama gets its first staging at the Irish National Theatre in a post 9/11, post Enron world which throws new complexions upon its study of the ...
Harvey O'Brien
Twin brothers separated shortly after birth lie reunited in death at both the rise and fall of the curtain of Willy Russell’s musical drama. Who is responsible? There are many suspects: two women who strike a deal to trade ...
Arthur Lazere
From the Greek Mimes to Marcel Marceau and Beyond: Mimes, Actors, Pierrots and Clowns: A Chronicle of the Many Visages of Mime in the Theatre (2002), Annette Bercut Lust Geoff Hoyle has long ...
Suzanne Weiss
It seems as though the Chieftains have been together since St. Patrick got rid of the snakes, but actually it’s only been 40 years. And nobody can say that the venerable Irish group hasn’t changed with the times. Not ...
Suzanne Weiss
From the moment Karen Finley walks onto the stage, you are drowned in a torrent of words. Alternately raving, rhapsodic – and, occasionally, calm and rational – she assaults the audience with the force of her persona. A force ...
Arthur Lazere
David Mamet's stage language has become familiar to theater and film-goers over the last quarter century. Spare, sometimes cryptic, Mamet's dialogue dances around the subtleties of human experience, the edges of realities of which the characters themselves are often ...
