Scenes From an Execution is aptly titled. It refers to both an epic painting of a famed Venetian battle and the imprisonment of the unapologetic arti...
Fern Siegel | Posted 07.07.2008 | Entertainment
Insightful, and astounding, Albee's Occupant reveals the true grit behind an artist's calling. By contrast, Goldberg's Cirque Dreams Jungle Fantasy focuses on the wholly physical -- stretching, literally, what the body can do.
Michael Giltz | Posted 06.26.2008 | Entertainment
Why do critics -- like Ben Brantley from the New York Times -- spend a month in London going to the theater? Because they can, of course. Happily, so ...
Tom Davis | Posted 06.20.2008 | Life
Lately, I've felt so plucked, I've felt like chicken feed. OK, now that I've got your attention.... But, yes, sure...these are both exciting and str...
Ryan J. Davis | Posted 06.19.2008 | Entertainment
All of America ('all' equals six million in this case) was glued to the Tony Awards Sunday, waiting with baited breath to see what show they haven't h...
Abigail Pogrebin | Posted 06.12.2008 | Entertainment
Beneath my New York armor, I'm as corny as Kansas; The recent revival of South Pacific reminded me of all the lovers kept apart by this endless war and how atypical it is to love blatantly, putting devotion ahead of all else.
Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 05.29.2008 | Entertainment
"You have never heard of it," that kind of unknown. AND greatest: winner of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award greatest. The show is...are you ready?
Tom Gregory | Posted 05.23.2008 | Entertainment
As America looks towards the post-Bush era, it's important to learn from the most idealistic marvels of our past. The American dream that has fallen away was once up there on Broadway's stage, inspiring audiences every night.
Robert Brustein | Posted 05.20.2008 | Entertainment
I thought I had been summoned into Huntington's presence to discuss artistic matters. Instead, he remarked upon the title of the magazine and asked me what I thought of "Theatre."
Pres. Charles H.P. Smith, aka David Mamet | Posted 05.12.2008 | Politics
What about if, in our ongoing contest of seemingly irreconcilable differences, instead of our interminable "legislative process," each side merely elected a Champion, and they "spun the dreidl?"
Pres. Charles H.P. Smith, aka David Mamet | Posted 04.21.2008 | Politics
My opponents are yapping at my heels. I have been asked if I wish them ill. No, I do not wish them ill. If I wished them ill I would withdraw from the race. For this job, finally, is an unmitigated pain in the ass.
Fern Siegel | Posted 03.17.2008 | Entertainment
The Adding Machine, an off-Broadway revival of the 1923 Elmer Rice play, is staged in a Thirties social realism style, complemented by moving performances and a rich modern score.
Elizabeth Benedict | Posted 02.15.2008 | Entertainment
What's happened as a result of The Vagina Monologues is a tribute to the power of one person - one misbehaving woman -- to move the world.
Marianne Schnall | Posted 01.31.2008 | Life
The "mega event of the decade," as Eve Ensler describes it, is certain to be The Vagina Monologues' and V-Day's ten-year anniversary celebration, V to the Tenth.
Justin Hudnall | Posted 11.26.2007 | Politics
Finally, backboned America has a forum besides Dennis Kucinich's website: the Culture Project of New York's "A Question of Impeachment" forum.
Jed Horne | Posted 11.14.2007 | Entertainment
A classic of 1950s absurdist theater set in a part of New Orleans that has become an emblem of Bush-era incompetence.
Justin Hudnall | Posted 11.12.2007 | Entertainment
Nothing says "I told you so" like writing a political parable a decade before it comes true. This is what English playwright Howard Barker has achieved with A Hard Heart.
Justin Hudnall | Posted 11.07.2007 | Entertainment
Thankfully, there are artists like Dan Hoyle, a white guy who went to Nigeria on a Fulbright Scholarship to make a play about oil politics and globalization.
Karen Stabiner | Posted 10.29.2007 | Entertainment
I worry that we stand because we've been entertained, without considering whether we've been entertained well.
Matt Budd | Posted 10.18.2007 | Entertainment
Charles Busch's return to Broadway tells the story of Angela Arden and her rather dysfunctional family. It's filled with sex, blackmail and murder most sweet.
Garrett Eisler | Posted 09.21.2007 | Entertainment
A lockout and shutdown of Broadway shows is not getting any less likely for next week.
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Fern Siegel | Posted 07.18.2008 | Entertainment