Identity and the Word
A new anthology stages a conversation between hip-hop culture and the world at large.
Category Archives: Book Reviews
Master Harold
Two new books make the case for Pinter in performance as opposed to Pinter as literature.
Drawing on Shakespeare
Graphic versions of the Bard are proliferating like never before.
Living for Design
Design is about more than pretty pictures, as reviews of three new books on costuming, scenography and lighting prove.
Measured Lives
The lives of two Broadway icons are told in conscientious detail, but without the theatrical flair of their best work.
Women’s Work
Can the Method be reconciled to feminism? Transcending both seems to have been Stella Adler’s answer.
Selling It
With his second volume of lyrics, Sondheim makes the case for his theatrical vision, even when it’s led him down blind alleys.
Shakespeare the Brainiac
Four tomes from the Shakespearean assembly line plumb the mind behind the man.
Manhandled
African-American masculinity–and black womanhood–are examined in August Wilson’s oeuvre.
‘Blacker Than You, Brother Man’
Minstrelsy’s poisoned history bamboozles a compendium of Jim Crow plays.
