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 […]
While it is not messy by any means, Apartment Living, written by Boni B. Alvarez and produced at Skylight Theatre in conjunction with Playwrights Arena, is brilliant — yet confusing. The play is […]
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 […]
It’s been two years since live theater closed curtains. During this period of no staged drama, musicals, or comedy, we were relegated to the confines of late-night television comedians, sans in-person audiences. During this time of quarantine and pandemic […]
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 […]
Thank goodness, I took a course in Southwestern Mystery and Myth in graduate school, or I would have no idea what was going on in Kelly McBurnette-Andronicos’ The Hall of Final […]
