Coming to Terms
American plays offer new truths about the collective trauma of Vietnam.
Critic’s Notebook
Stars & Strife Forever
In the New American Epics, drama busts out of the living room into the open spaces of our national history.
One Devil Too Many
The persistence, contra the puritans, of Marlowe’s ‘Doctor Faustus.’
Not Much Ado After All
On the evidence of their current showing on Broadway, the R.S.C. has fallen from its ensemble ideals into mere spectacle and showmanship.
You Have to Be There: Notes on Robert Wilson
In Wilson’s gigantic vision of ‘CIVIL warS,’ the conflict extends from classes and races to species and sexes, and even beyond, to the cosmic.
Imagining the Greeks
The world’s oldest plays continue in our time to be staged, restaged, mulled over, written about. What accounts for their enduring fascination?
Updating Classics: A Revamped Verdi Fuels the Fray
Jonathan Miller’s ‘Rigoletto’ taps the work’s Shakespearean roots, via a transplant to Little Italy.
The Liberation of Eugene O’Neill
Where does O’Neill stand today, some 30 years after his death? Evidently on a pedestal.
Good Company
The partnerships of sports and the stage at this year Olympics should come as no surprise.
Adding to Beckett
What a mystery it is that these tiny and ever-shrinking dramacules—these death rattles—can bring so much life to the theatre.
