Thoughtful reviews of theatre, television and music.
Growing up isn’t easy, especially when you’re poor, have an abusive, alcoholic father and a mother who is mentally at sea. Patrick McCabe knew this, and his trenchant 1992 novel…
Characters endure a variety of transitional moments in playwright Isaac Byrne’s Under the Dragon’s Tail, a quartet of short plays at Matthew Corozine Studio Theatre. Also directed by Byrne and…
Revisited but not revitalized, Into the Woods, the fabled James Lapine-Stephen Sondheim musical, has been revived for a second time on Broadway, having immediately transferred over from a two-week New…
The idea of a bunch of semi-strangers all convening in the cold of January 6 will likely forever have ominous connotations, but playwright Brian Watkins has a different sense of…
Question: How do you belt to the rafters when your theater is only eight feet high? Answer: With all the abandon in the world – especially if you’re international singing…
Throughout Sarah Silverman’s career, going on nearly three decades, the famously ribald comedian has held very little back. Such was the case with her 2010 memoir The Bedwetter, a collage…
David Morse and Mary-Louise Parker recreate the dark magic of How I Learned to Drive A unique kind of excavation is currently happening at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre –…
The wheels on the Antrobus go round and round in The Skin of Our Teeth Thornton Wilder’s World War II-era The Skin of Our Teeth is an inventive, and somewhat…
Romeo and Bernadette is a transporting, fun time From Rick and Ilsa to Jack Twist and Ennis Del Mar, some of the great love stories of all time have ended…
The Minutes doesn’t waste a single one of them Slyly, slowly, The Minutes, ostensibly a play about the mundane power struggles within a group of city council members, reveals itself…
