Harvey O'Brien
London: Royal National Theatre February 28 - April 20 There are interesting thematic and structural feints in Sebastian Barry’s new play, and it contains enough political, philosophical, and psychological threads to suggest a genuine ...
Harvey O'Brien
Michel Tremblay is best known as a political playwright. His 1965 play Les Belles Soeurs, revolutionized Canadian theatre. Written in joual, the Quebequoise working class vernacular, the play dramatized the lives of proletarian women in Montreal. The combination of ...
Harvey O'Brien
Enda Walsh has yet to achieve the international renown of Conor McPherson, but he is one of the most ferocious new voices in contemporary Irish theatre. He shot to fame in 1996 with the production of Disco Pigs, a ...
Roy Sorrels
Near the end of The Castle, K sits outside the forever closed gate of the mysterious castle to which he desperately wants to gain admittance. Herr Erlanger, top secretary to the all-powerful Herr Klamm, has a line that is almost ...
Arthur Lazere
San Francisco American Conservatory Theater January 10 - February 10, 2002 With historical records from the sixteenth century a whole lot less than complete, it's no wonder that generations of scholars have speculated endlessly ...
Roy Sorrels
Off-Broadway is traditionally known for experimental theatre. So how about an experiment that provides the following: a good story of the romantic-comedy genre, with some real romance and genuinely funny lines and situations, a stage full of colorful, appealing ...
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 ...
