Double Edge’s ‘Grand Paradise’ Rushes the Gates of Heaven
The Massachusetts-based company’s Chagall-inspired new work marches through a turbulent century.
Category Archives: Opinion
Leon Katz’s Anti-Rule Book
A lion of play analysis summarizes his life’s work in a liberating tome.
Murder Most Funny in ‘A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder’
The new musical from Robert L. Freedman and Steven Lutvak tells its grisly tale with just the right measure of taste, tone, and intent—and a whole lot of Jefferson Mays.
The Book’s the Thing
A good play makes you think, but the exquisite little play-books from 53rd State Press are objects of contemplation in themselves.
Let the Right One In
On resistance, hospitality and new writing for the American stage.
Cost Effective
Pig Iron Theatre Company and Japan’s chelfitsch engage in a unique collaboration.
Identity and the Word
A new anthology stages a conversation between hip-hop culture and the world at large.
Master Harold
Two new books make the case for Pinter in performance as opposed to Pinter as literature.
Appointment With Despair: Pages from a Writer’s Notebook
In ‘The Train Driver,’ South Africa’s master dramatist wrestles with the fate of a poor family and what it means to him.
Drawing on Shakespeare
Graphic versions of the Bard are proliferating like never before.
