Lucas Hnath’s A Doll’s House, Part 2 is a cheeky concept that dares to take itself seriously enough to honor its famous predecessor, while creating a potent and entirely fresh theatrical experience. […]
The Robey Theatre, headed by Ben Guillory, comes roaring back after the Covid-induced layover, with a meticulously researched and workshopped performance piece that tackles the biggest questions of our current […]
Perhaps you will not wonder, as I did, what the half-part of “Bright Half Life” meant in the context of Tanya Barfield’s play. Suffice it to say, I just had to […]
What constitutes good acting? Honesty? Authenticity? Realism? Charisma? The culture critic Isaac Butler explores these questions as well as past as prologue in his absorbing new book, The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act. In this […]
For me, Hooded or Being Black for Dummies was the most challenging play I’ve seen recently. As directed by Ahmed Best and written by Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm for the Echo Theatre Company, the production has […]
My reception of Sarah Ruhl’s In The Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) is surely influenced by having blundered into the wrong theatre. Have you heard that theatre is dead? You will not […]
