plays
‘Diana of Dobson’s’: A 1908 British romantic comedy defies oppressive women’s roles
April 24, 2019Perhaps it’s a fairy tale, a kind of reverse Cinderella, but any way you look at it, it’s a brilliant snapshot of class and gender relations in the Edwardian era.
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Growing up and getting wiser in the land of ‘Falsettos’
April 22, 2019All art requires a certain level of suspension of disbelief, and Falsettos presents no exception to the rule.
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Political correctness confronts the academic establishment in ‘The Niceties’
April 19, 2019Like it or not, liberals and leftists need each other.
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‘Birdland Blue’ evokes Miles Davis’s late 1950s jazz world
April 10, 2019The play spools out in one 90-minute act, engaging eye, ear and heart all the way.
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Plays ‘Faith Healer’ and ‘Rotterdam’ demand rigorous self-examination
April 3, 2019Now haunting and mystical, now bawdy and besotted, now full of bravado and then abasement, Faith Healer questions both faith and healing.
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