The texture of life in Dancing at Lughnasa starts out so simply, so much a cross section of the everyday,…
Theater
Hilton Edwards and Miche�l MacLiamm�ir were two of the most important figures in twentieth century Irish theatre. Edwards was best…
The Complete Critical Guide to Samuel Beckett The story is told of the 19th century actor, down on his luck,…
Of the new young playwrights who have emerged in the past decade, Rebecca Gilman is unique in that she has…
Davis Gaines is a Broadway musical star, widely know for his portrayal of the title role in the wildly successful…
Martin Crimp’s Attempts on Her Life is a courageous and fascinating experiment in the creation of a new kind of…
The current production of The Elephant Man is curiously out of balance. It strains to soar into the realm of…
Somewhere in the true story of poet-scholar-novelist Robert Graves and his lover Laura Riding, also a respected poet, there may…
Three old ladies, sisters who have lived all their lives in a small Texas town, tell interminable tales about characters…
In Act II of Chekhov’s The Sea Gull, the infatuated young Nina gushes to the attractive visiting writer, Trigorin, about…
The 1927 musical Strike Up the Band was the first collaboration between the Gershwin brothers, George (music) and Ira (lyrics),…
Suzanne Bachner’s hilarious and moving play, Circle, is about that most noisily merry and profoundly distressing of subjects, sex. It…
Online references on Arthur Miller "It’s hard to hold a pen with a clenched fist," said Ralph Ellison, and works…
Edward Albee’s new play is puzzling, powerful, bawdy, disturbing and deeply weird. It challenges a viewer to decide whether what…