Category Archives: Critic’s Notebook

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.

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.

The world’s oldest plays continue in our time to be staged, restaged, mulled over, written about. What accounts for their enduring fascination?

Jonathan Miller’s ‘Rigoletto’ taps the work’s Shakespearean roots, via a transplant to Little Italy.

Where does O’Neill stand today, some 30 years after his death? Evidently on a pedestal.

The partnerships of sports and the stage at this year Olympics should come as no surprise.

What a mystery it is that these tiny and ever-shrinking dramacules—these death rattles—can bring so much life to the theatre.

Imagining a courtroom argument against, and a case for, fair and honest criticism.

Tharp has turned the tables on both dance and theatre, while having her cake and eating it, too.