Harvey O'Brien
Sandwiched between The Gigli Concert and Bailegangaire, Tom Murphys Conversations on a Homecoming was first produced in 1985. Taking place in the West of Ireland in the early 1970s, it is a reflection on the ideals and idealism of ...
Harvey O'Brien
If the rapid-fire, razor-sharp, razzle-dazzle spectacle of Steppenwolfs production of Glengarry Glen Ross was the highlight of the Dublin Theatre Festival for some, they might have done well to see the unfolding of the desperate, on-the-edge lives of a ...
Harvey O'Brien
Marina Carrs Ariel is a play which is clearly grappling with several major issues. In attempting to negotiate a space between an Irish classical tradition and an ancient Greek one, and in trying to incorporate the not incompatible concerns ...
Gerald Rabkin
Happy Days: The Production Notebook of Samuel Beckett The Cherry Lane Theatre, an intimate little playhouse located at the elbow of an eccentric street in Greenwich Village, has for three-quarters of a century since its founding by Edna St. ...
Arthur Lazere
Deserving winner of the 2001 Tony Award for Best Play, Edward Albee's The Goat is unquestionably the most mesmerizing theatrical experience on Broadway at the time of this writing. With dialogue that crackles like none since Who's Afraid of ...
Gerald Rabkin
It's Lanford Wilson's turn to be rediscovered. Like his great precursors, Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller, his dramatic reputation rests on a substantial body of early work followed by a long period of diminished and unheralded productivity. Wilson was ...
Suzanne Weiss
A circus always is fun and John Guares The House of Blue Leaves, newly opened at Berkeley Rep, is a three-ring lollapalooza. Youve got your hero, Artie (Jarion Monroe), a wannabe songwriter who feeds the animals at the zoo ...
Karen Weinstein
An extramarital affair.Almost a cliche, yet to the people having the affair it can become the center of the universe.At least at the beginning. In Betrayal, playwright Harold Pinter works backwards.The first two scenes are in the present.Scene one, ...
Karen Weinstein
If summer is a time for light amusement (and that seems to be the theory under which Hollywood studios and book review sections of newspapers operate), then by all means have a couple of Margueritas and go enjoy Communicating Doors. ...
Gerald Rabkin
After a season's hiatus, the musical megahit strikes again, following much the same formula as its triumphant predecessor, The Producers. Take an excellent film of yesteryear, one already containing musical elements which can be built upon, iron out some ...