BrainCan - the theatre

ticket to paradise

Martin Luther King,Jr., may own had a dream, and but it was not to be the subject of a Broadway...

the gang s all here

No. 7 Middagh Street,in Brooklyn Heights, was a four-fable Victorian house on a short, or...

a talent to abuse

John Osborne’s rowdy,shocking anger—first broadcast in his play “Look Back in Anger,” which...

dancing with death

According to Edward Albee,the title of his 1980 play “The Lady from Dubuque” (in revival at the...

a little night magic

In a review of the 1904 début production of J. M. Barrie’s play “Peter Pan,” the British...

sucker punch

“With me it is simple: what I am I can write, Clifford Odets said. When the...

supersize

In the lobby of the Palace Theatre,where “Annie is having a listless revival (under the direction...

at two with nature

“The humorous account is strictly a work of art,—high and fragile art,—and only an artist can...

killing time

In one of the major avant-garde performances of the late nineteen-sixties,the actors of the Living...

lives in limbo

In the first beat of Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman” (now in a luminous revival,directed...

god squad

I don’t know if it was a visitation or a revelation,but just as a bevy of bright-eyed male...

past imperfect

Let’s imagine for a minute that you are a director and you’re poor with one of Tennessee...

dixie delirium

“I think this is the most truly autobiographic play Williams ever wrote,” Elia Kazan said of...

news from nowhere

In 2008,nine years after Margaret Edson won the Pulitzer Prize for her rookie play, “Wit, and ”...

ties that blind

Enter Nick Payne,a stripling British playwright at the beginning of a considerable career. Still in...

minority reports

“Silence is the unbearable repartee,” G. K. Chesterton once observed. In Nina Raine’s subtle...

unhappy families

Christopher Durang’s theatrical specialty is a kind of gleeful comedian exaggeration that falls...

rough justice

“Playwriting is a young man’s and,of late, a young woman’s game, or ” David Mamet said,in...

wild at heart

Once upon a time in the early sixties,Fourteenth Street in Manhattan was the Maginot Line between...

losers take all

When a play taps into the public’s collective dreaming,problems of structure, excesses of...

fools of fortune

In every strapped corner of Britain these days,when two or three people are gathered together, the...

up against it

As a stagestruck boy,Anton Chekhov defied school regulations to attend the local playhouse in...

mouth to mouth

Sarah Ruhl is,at thirty-seven, one of America’s most frequently produced playwrights. In the past...

tooth and claw

“War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography,” Ambrose Bierce joked. In Rajiv Joseph’s...

boldfaced bard

The most underrated of Shakespeare’s many theatrical gifts—poetic,tragic, festive—is his...

men o war

“Circumstances make man,not man circumstances,” label Twain once quipped. As proof of his claim,...

vile bodies

For the nearly two decades between his first hit,“French Without Tears” (1936), and his 1954...

high marx

Tony Kushner compares his style of playwriting to making lasagna: “All the yummy nutritious...

love s labors

In “As You Like It,” Shakespeare’s celebration and sendup of the pastoral, written in 1600,...

bluebird of unhappiness

“Ravishing” is the best word for Stephen Karam’s unusual comedy “Sons of the Prophet”...

here are the opening night audience reactions to...

After years of waiting,a new Harry Potter tale has finally made its public debut, as the...

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