Dame Edna Everage and the Rise of Western Civilisation (2000), John Lahr It’s surprising, considering her vast ingenuity (no, that…
Theater
A rectangular coffin-like black box, back lit, rises, floating mysteriously from the horizontal to the vertical. A woman’s leg juts…
Arthur Miller is our national treasure. He is always important, tackling big issues that echo in the mind long after…
Aristophanes was a favorite in his own time, when The Frogs won first prize at a Dionysian festival, 405 B.C.E.,…
Online references on Hamlet This summer’s Hamlet is the first production to be directed by Michael Boyd since he took…
Something strange happens when Shakespeare goes out of doors, every summer, all over the country. A fit of poetry, something…
For pure entertainment it is hard to beat Cookin at the Cookery, currently playing at the Geffen Theaters temporary home,…
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum the 1966 film version with Zero Mostel DVD A Funny…
September 18 1890, Madison Square Theatre, New York City: an elderly actor feels the chill and the oppression of the…
New York John Houseman Theater Studio Too June 15 – July 7, 2004 Did you know that the word laugh…
New York The Promenade Theatre June 10 – August 22, 2004 It’s a talk play. Or more of a situation…
Forbidden Christmas or the Doctor and the Patient Rezo Gabriadze Oct. 27-31 The Power Center for the Performing Arts, University…
Peter Shaffers Amadeus is a tremendously powerful meditation on the nature of artistic inspiration that cruelly inducts its own audience…
Ever wonder what put the dot in the .com boom? Greed, guys. Nothing but pure and unadulterated human greed, according…