This Month in Theatre History
From British loyalist plays to Suzan-Lori Parks’s ‘Elements of Style,’ Edwin Booth’s ‘Hamlet’ to Lynn Nottage’s birth.
From British loyalist plays to Suzan-Lori Parks’s ‘Elements of Style,’ Edwin Booth’s ‘Hamlet’ to Lynn Nottage’s birth.
A Swedish production about teen insomnia tests the boundaries of storytelling with virtual technology.
In his lifelong affair with the theatre, he could be a possessive, even jealous lover, but both his intellectual acuity and his abundant humanity shone through all his writing.
He was an outsized figure as zany, mercurial, tender, and tragic as the characters he put onstage.
New York magazine’s new critic is also New York’s newest critic, and she says she’s as ready to listen as to talk.