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December 27, 2008
Pinter: Bare-Knuckled Citizen Playwright
In the end, Harold Pinter devoted himself to defining “the real truth of our lives and our societies.” Now that he’s gone, his twenty-nine plays will continue that rude, honorable and turbulent work.
Margaret Spillane
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October 7, 2008
Krapp’s Last Horse
With his new play Kicking a Dead Horse, Sam Shepard is still stranded in a prairie of tough-guy cliché.
Akiva Gottlieb
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May 1, 2008
Back Talk: John Turturro
Actor John Turturro discusses his latest project, a production of Beckett’s Endgame at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Christine Smallwood
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February 26, 2008
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December 13, 2007
Waiting for Godot in a Wasteland
The most devastated neighborhood in America makes an ideal backdrop for a morally ambiguous play about abandonment.
Billy Sothern
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June 27, 2007
Nixon’s Broadway Revival
Peter Morgan’s new play is highly entertaining; Frank Langella’s portrait of Nixon is brutally amusing; yet the play is historically inaccurate.
Elizabeth Drew
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May 1, 2007
A Dangerous Little Beehive?
A Cuban children’s troupe has performed around the globe but finds it almost impossible to enter the United States.
Rosa Miriam Elizalde
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February 22, 2007
Liberalism’s Lost Libretto
Tom Stoppard’s epic Coast of Utopia speaks as much to the state of the American left as it does to the roots of Russia’s revolution.
Eric Alterman
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April 27, 2006
Beckett at 100
No playwright has given plainer witness to the planet’s most violent century or borne such loving witness to the dispossessed.
Margaret Spillane
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April 7, 2006
The World According to Karen Finley
Performance artist Karen Finley answers questions about politics, satire and her new book, a fantasy affair between George W. Bush and Martha Stewart.
Bryan Farrell