In the early 1930s, Sally Carson , an English writer and dancing teacher, spent time in Germany. She then wrote Crooked Cross , which focuse...

Lynn Riggs (1899-1954) wrote 30 plays, a few of which were produced on Broadway, along with screenplays and poetry. Nowadays he is known--wh...

The fabulous Mint Theater Company is presenting Partnership , the third in their "Meet Miss [Elizabeth] Baker" series. The first, ...

While Betty Smith is famous today for her novel A Tree Grows in Brooklyn , her great love was playwrighting; she wrote over 70 one-act and f...

In Elizabeth Baker's play  Chains , currently in a strong production at the admirable Mint Theatre Company, Charley recognizes that he h...

The Mint Theater Company's production of D.H. Lawrence's drama, The Daughter-in-Law,  so successfully evokes life in the East Midlan...

Great news: It's not too late to watch The Mint's fabulous production of the painfully timely 1925 play Conflict.  (Review of the p...

The invaluable Mint Theater Company has found another underappreciated playwright from early in the last century. Elizabeth Baker grew up in...

I am frequently blown away by the depth and quality of the New York acting community. Brilliant performances are everywhere . (I've li...

Is any theatre company in New York more consistently satisfying than The Mint? IMHO, the answer is a great big "No!" Larry Bul...

The wonderful people at The Mint have done it yet again. They have gifted us with a beautiful production of a lost gem of a play, complete w...

Sex. It's a tricky thing, is sex. Throughout history, including now, cultures have sought to tame sex's complexity via rigid rules...

Playwright Teresa Deevy lived from 1894 to 1963. The youngest of 13 children, she lost her hearing in her late teens, roughly at the same ti...

In A.A. Milne's The Lucky One , currently playing at The Mint, we hear it again and again: "Poor old Bob." "Poor old Bob....

So much depends on where you begin a play. Do you start when character A is behaving well? Or when character B is? Do you start at the found...

Perhaps it's time for me to make a template for my reviews of Mint Theater Company productions: Thanks once again to the invaluable Mi...

Playwright Hazel Ellis seems to have had a low opinion of women, with an even lower opinion of powerless women stuck together in lives harsh...

Harold Chapin's  The New Morality , the slight but delightful piece from 1915 currently on view at The Mint, resembles an Oscar Wilde pl...

Bravo to the Mint! Once again, the Mint has revived and revitalized a neglected play with respect, creativity, fine acting, excellent di...

If there is a theatrical heaven whence long-deceased playwrights can watch their work, then I'm certain that George Kelly is thrilled wi...