Our reviewers were not enthusiastic about two award-winning plays.
Theater
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
A dynamic and damaged power couple face off in ‘Fosse/Verdon’
These two overachievers needed each other, even or especially when they were not together.
Posted inArts & Culture, Theater
Keep or abolish the Constitution? A fiery debate commences on Broadway
Heidi Schreck’s new play puts the narrative of her own life in contention with the history of our nation’s founding document.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
When we reject reality we’re also turning away from God
To live in the real, to reject illusion is to set our face toward growth and toward God.
Posted inArts & Culture, Theater
The return of Daniel Berrigan’s ‘The Trial of the Catonsville Nine’
The director Jack Cummings III has reimagined the play as a kind of found text, recited and enacted by three Asian American actors.
Posted inArts & Culture, Theater
‘Rent’: A musical that’s difficult to love
All owe a debt to “Rent,” and I for one am happy to pay it.
Posted inArts & Culture, Theater
Atticus Finch and Howard Beale finally get their Broadway moment
Two starry new Broadway productions have no qualms about speaking their mind.
Posted inArts & Culture, Theater
Kenneth Lonergan’s “The Waverly Gallery” makes a belated and brilliant Broadway debut
Two seasoned actors explore meaning and mortality in ‘The Waverly Gallery’ and ‘Thom Pain (based on nothing).’
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
How to experience the Bible in a digital world
A 21st-century arts collective revives illustrating the Bible for the digital age.
Posted inArts & Culture, Theater
Review: The Troubles bring trouble to a farm family in Northern Ireland
In the fallen world of “The Ferryman,” conflict and compromise poison everything.