Humana’s Changing Conversation, and Who Leads It
The shows in this year’s new-play fest at Actors Theatre of Louisville were in dialogue with past offerings, no doubt, but also with our current moment.
Category Archives: Critic’s Notebook
All the Single Bobbies
What does Sondheim’s newest heroine have to say about his body of work, and about women today?
5, 6, 7, 8 Takeaways From ‘Fosse/Verdon’
Spoiler: The new bio-musical series isn’t just great TV, it also makes a case for more inclusive storytelling.
The View From Denver’s New-Play Summit
Now under new leadership, the 14th iteration of this developmental festival again offered room, time, and shared energy to a crop of writers.
‘True West’: Sam Shepard’s Super Smash Brothers
In a Roundabout revival of the nearly 40-year-old play, it holds up as a withering portrait of the myths and traps of American masculinity.
Festival Roundup Part Deux: Not Our First Rodeo
It wasn’t quite the season of our discontent, but this year’s January festivals felt a bit less binge-able than usual, despite the high points.
Feasting in the Festival Garden
New York’s annual experimental theatre sampler boasts plenty of chills and frills, but the real attraction is carefully crafted mayhem.
What One Show Can Carry: William Kentridge’s ‘The Head and the Load’
To honor the million-plus Black Africans who died in World War I, the South African artist uses opera, theatre, dance, video, and a dose of Dada.
All ‘The Season’ in a Day: Reading Goldman to Say Goodbye
You can’t just dip into the best, most compulsively readable book ever written about the art and sweat of making theatre (though you may skip a few parts).
Everything’s Different, Nothing’s Changed: ‘Company’ With a Female Bobbie
By flipping a few genders, Marianne Elliott’s new London revival turns Sondheim and Furth’s classic into a meditation on modern relationships.
