Playing the Field Playing the Field
"In society the homosexual's life must be discreetly concealed. As material for drama, that life must be even more intensely concealed.
Jun 19, 2003 / Books & the Arts / David Kaufman
Talkin’ ‘Bout My Generation Talkin’ ‘Bout My Generation
The revival of a highly regarded play can either enhance or diminish its reputation.
Mar 6, 2003 / Books & the Arts / David Kaufman
‘What Silent Love Hath Writ’ ‘What Silent Love Hath Writ’
At the Brooklyn Academy of Music this month, the Harvey Theater reclaims its original name--the Majestic--with the arrival of director Sam Mendes's beautiful renderings of Chek...
Jan 30, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Carol Rocamora
Unfinished Women Unfinished Women
Imaginary Friends, The Mercy Seat
Jan 9, 2003 / Books & the Arts / David Kaufman
Mamet Goes Wildeing Mamet Goes Wildeing
The great disparity in the critical reaction to Caryl Churchill's Far Away, now playing Off Broadway, serves to remind us that opinions are just that--neither right nor wrong, but...
Dec 12, 2002 / Books & the Arts / David Kaufman
Intelligentsia at Play Intelligentsia at Play
Tom Stoppard's 'Coast of Utopia'
Nov 21, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Carol Rocamora
Yaqui Way of Knowledge Yaqui Way of Knowledge
Although Chicano identity has been Luis Valdez's theme since all but the earliest years of El Teatro Campesino, the guerrilla theater he founded in the 1960s, getting a clear sens...
May 23, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Hal Gelb
Yuri Gagarin Rides Again Yuri Gagarin Rides Again
London Despite an initial drop in attendance in the uncertain aftermath of September 11, and the changing of the guard at three major institutions, the London theater scen...
Feb 7, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Carol Rocamora
Afghanistan by Stagelight Afghanistan by Stagelight
A review of Tony Kushner's Homebody/Kabul.
Jan 17, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Elizabeth Pochoda
Vaginal Politics Vaginal Politics
Imagine Madison Square Garden brimming over with 18,000 laughing and ebullient women of every size, shape, age and color, along with their male friends, ditto. Imagine that in th...
Feb 15, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Katha Pollitt