My latest essay is up at Art Times : I walked out on a production of the brilliant comedy Cloud Nine the other night. The problem? The...

It is telling that the line from which this play's title comes is " No  pity in history." It's the 17th Century, during a ...

Just twice in four decades of theatre have I bought the show's script during intermission, and Tom Stoppard's Arcadia in 1995 was ...

Tom Stoppard always offers scrumptious meals for the head, but not always for the heart. Arcadia , his brilliant play about literature, hist...

I was recently interviewed by the Dean of the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences at Baruch College. Here's the resultant clip. Also, h...

Forty years ago, on July 13, 1977, I was at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, watching Threepenny Opera  starring Ellen Greene, Philip ...