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.
Category Archives: Critic’s Notebook
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.
Trial By Jury: Critics on the Stand?
Imagining a courtroom argument against, and a case for, fair and honest criticism.
The (Im)Pure Theatre of Twyla Tharp
Tharp has turned the tables on both dance and theatre, while having her cake and eating it, too.
