The Glass Menagerie, the semi-autobiographical “memory play” that launched the career of Tennessee Williams, takes place in a fragile space, presided over by an omniscient family photo and a narrator, Tom Wingfield (Richard Prioleau), who admits to t …Read more

Years ago, during a heated, college-theatre class debate on the subject of risk-taking in theatre, I, with the untamed and unearned arrogance of youth, scornfully declared, “You people have no idea what it means to take risks. All this talk of emotio …Read more

The Public Theater continues its long-standing commitment to present Shakespeare to as wide an audience as possible with its Mobile Shakespeare Unit. This company performs in prisons, shelters, and other venues in underserved communities. Now they’ve …Read more

I’ve been an ardent fan of the actor and writer Simon Callow since seeing his Orlando in As You Like It at the National Theatre years ago when I was a drama school student in London. Since then I’ve enjoyed his work in numerous films, his one man sho …Read more

Three insignificant souls try to make the most of their humdrum lives in the 2014 Pulitzer Prize winning drama The Flick by Annie Baker, hailed by The New York Times as “one of the freshest and most talented dramatists to emerge Off Broadway in the p …Read more

“Nothing is easy and simple anymore,” declares Lori, one of the protagonists of Blackout03. Both plays I attended at HERE Arts Center as part of the Downtown Urban Theatre Festival, Blackout03 and Bed Bugs and Hot Pockets, revealed to the audience th …Read more

The first of three evenings of short works presented by Ensemble Studio Theatre is something the theatre could use more of. Running for 35 years, it’s plain to see why the Marathon has such great legs: if variety is the spice of life, EST’s given us …Read more

Before going to see Sibyl Kempson’s newest play, Let Us Now Praise Susan Sontag, you’d be best served to spend a few minutes doing a bit of research. If you start with Sontag and work all the way back to Dust Bowl Era exploitation photography (and pr …Read more

The audience walking into the Dixon Place for the opening weekend of puppeteer James Godwin’s one-man show The Flatiron Hex was not sure what kind of show to expect, and walking out we still weren’t exactly sure what we’d just witnessed, but we can’t …Read more

Coming of age stories are usually seen through hazy golden filters that make everything seem more romantic than it was. They are also mostly told through male voices, which is why it was quite a delight to see how democratic A.R. Gurney’s What I Did …Read more