Girls Confined, Interrupted, Awakened
In a clutch of Off-Broadway shows, women in intimate or secluded spaces reckon with themselves and others.
Category Archives: Critic’s Notebook
A Neon Nostalgia Kaboom for the End of the World
In its ’80s IP retro rush, is Broadway’s 2025-26 season simply offering brand-name escapism—or finding a reflection of, and a response to, our current age of anxiety?
Your Call Is Very Important to ‘Lennox Mutual’
Candle House Collective’s personalized immersive experience engages participants in a series of 20-minute phone calls that can go to some very odd, personal places.
The Revolt of Arthur Miller’s Women
‘John Proctor is the Villain,’ now on Broadway, is just one in a spate of recent plays that offer feminist correctives to ‘The Crucible’ and ‘Death of a Salesman.’
Connecting Russian Refugees Via Theatre—and a SpaceBridge
Through the stories of young Russian refugee children, theatremaker Irina Kruzhilina aims to promote compassion among mistrustful Americans, and create some friendships along the way.
Divine Comedy Festival: Joy and Despair, Head-Scratching and Mind-Blowing
This last dispatch from the 2024 gathering checks in with some Americans who’ve felt both inspired and challenged by their Polish counterparts.
Sex, Politics, Guarded Optimism: A Report From Kraków’s Divine Comedy
Theatre in Poland inevitably intersects with politics, and not only because it relies on state support.
Our Man in Kraków: Dispatches From Divine Comedy
This correspondent returned eagerly to a place where theatre still matters in a troubled world, even if it can’t quite make sense of it.
Dallas’s Latinidades Was More Than a Festival
This celebration of community stretched over weeks and connected Latine and Latin American performance.
Borne Back Ceaselessly Into ‘The Great Gatsby’
With so many adaptations, including the return of Elevator Repair Service’s ‘GATZ,’ are artists reinventing a classic—or destined to repeat the errors of the past?
