Tom Foreman’s play, Boiler Room Six, tells the story of Frederick Barrett, stoker on the Titanic. It’s 1912,...
Entertainment
AMERICAN THEATRE | Patrick Gabridge Plays in Place
Playwright Patrick Gabridge. (Photo by Nile Scott Shots) Each month on The Subtext, Brian...
Spotlight: Hoopla 20th Anniversary Improv Festival
Hoopla – the UK’s first improv theatre and now its largest improv school – is turning 20, and they’re marking...
AMERICAN THEATRE | Chekhov Unhinged, ‘Cats’ Unleashed
“We’re going to produce Chekhov to calm down,” is how the Russian director Dmitry Krymov characterized what he...
Play review: Saint Joan (Arches Lane Theatre)
George Bernard Shaw‘s play of Saint Joan runs about four hours and was truncated to 110 minutes for the 1957...
Musical review: Flyby (Southwark Playhouse Borough)
Flyby, now running at Southwark Playhouse, is about space, and an astronaut who broke free in a capsule during...
Tony Kushner Does a Cameo on Hacks – New York Theater
I happen to know the best writer in the world – Tony Kushner,” Jean Smart as Deborah Vance says in the first...
Death of a Salesman Broadway Review – New York Theater
This sixth Broadway revival of Arthur Miller’s towering play is undeniably a Prestige Production, but it’s one...
AMERICAN THEATRE | L.A. Drama Critics Circle Awards, Bechdel Project Residency, and More
Joe Ngo as Chum, Abraham Kim as Rom, Kelsey Angel Baehrens as Sothea, Jane Lui as Pou, and Tim Liu as Leng...
AMERICAN THEATRE | Entre aquí y allá: Spotlight on Puerto Rican Artists
What does it mean to be a Puerto Rican artist today? The splitness of Puerto Rican identity—shaped by our...
David Irvin on Ibsen and his enduring relevance
I recently spoke with David Irvin, the author of The Plays of Henrik Ibsen (recently published by Troubadour),...
The Arthur Miller Tapes – New York Theater
When Arthur Miller died in 2005 at the age of 89, as Charles Bigsby tells us on the last page of his latest...





























