My latest essay is up at Art Times: The holy grail of New York theater is a rave review in the  New York Times.  It doesn’t guarantee succ...

Ian Spring and LEXXE as Alice. Photo: Mark Shelby Perry This burlesque journey down the rabbit hole transforms Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s ...

It took me a very long time to see A Fidler afn Dakh ( Fiddler on the Roof  in Yiddish)--more on that in a minute--but I'm glad I pushed...

Once upon a time, not all that long ago, I watched certain political plays with a sense of distance, deeply sympathetic to the characters an...

In  Series A , the first part of Summer Shorts  at 59E59, all three plays circle around death. This is a lot for a 90-minute evening. The ...

Ya gotta love Annie Golden. She has a sweetness to her, with a wild voice and a slightly goofy vibe. For a creative team to decide to shape ...