Paul Sand’s new play, THE PILOT WHO CRASHED THE PARTY, boasts an intriguing title. And the description, which hints at an homage/satire of drawing room dramas, conjures images of well-dressed […]
Lucas Hnath is a playwright who resists easy categorization. His plays are so different in story, style, tone, and technique that one would assume several quite different writers authored them. […]
On Broadway, a new country-flavored musical called SHUCKED is currently in previews. Closer to home, the world premiere of HEAVENLY COUNTRY, a jukebox country-western musical, is running at the Two […]
“Unless you are at a picnic, life is no picnic,” this cleverly axiomatic phrase is attributed to comedy writer Jane Wagner. The 1953 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Picnic, by William Inge, lends evidence to Ms. Wagner’s witticism. The […]
It is remarkable that Claude Debussy’s PELLEAS ET MELISANDE remains sui generis 121 years after the opera’s premiere. Despite aggressively modern works by Schoenberg, Tippett, Berio, and Glass, it remains, in its […]
