While Richard III has been done 21 times on Broadway, Richard II  has been done only seven, most recently in 1957. (Source: ibdb.com ) It i...

In the late 1970s, The Public Theater presented the Yale Rep production of  Sganarelle: An Evening of Molière Farces. It was a wonderful ev...

The rollicking, deeply silly, remarkably funny production of the The Knight of the Burning Pestle  currently at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, ...

Red Bull's fabulously entertaining production of Arden of Faversham,  directed with a wry hand by Artistic Director Jesse Berger, tells ...

Robert Frost once said, "Poetry is what gets lost in translation." To this I add, theatre is what gets lost in streaming. Please d...

I was going to do a "best-of" for 2019 plus a "looking forward" for 2020, when I realized that their focus would be much...

When Keith Hamilton Cobb first took an acting class, he wanted to play Titania from A Midsummer Night's Dream.  His acting teacher said ...

I have seen enough mediocre-to-bad high-concept productions of Shakespeare's plays to shudder at the very idea of "high-concept....

John Webster wrote The White Devil  in the early 1600s, and 400 years later it remains relevant and great fun. Red Bull director Louisa P...

So, I could rave about the writing (joyfully wonderful and silly rhymes by David Ives) or the acting (from a strong, talented, attractive en...

I can't be 100% certain what William Shakespeare would think of the current election season, but, as Director Michael Sexton and the goo...

Same as it ever was, same as it ever was. Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s The School For Scandal , first performed in 1777, reveals that human...