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Voices
Rob Weinert-Kendt, an arts journalist and editor of American Theatre magazine, has written for The New York Times and Time Out New York. He writes a blog called The Wicked Stage.
Sam Shepard poses for a portrait in New York, Sept. 2011 (AP Photo/Charles Sykes)
Arts & CultureTheater
Rob Weinert-Kendt
While Shepard's plays would absorb different rhythms and influences, their essence and voice were unmistakably his—our—own.
Oscar Isaacs as Hamlet (photo: The Public Theatre)
Arts & CultureTheater
Rob Weinert-Kendt
In a bewildering new staging at The Public Theater, Oscar Isaac is giving a rich, riveting lead turn as the dubious Danish prince.
Daniel Oreskes, Michael Aronov, and Anthony Azizi (foreground) with Daniel Jenkins and Jeb Kreager (background). Photo by T. Charles Erickson
Arts & CultureTheater
Rob Weinert-Kendt
Like all the best historical narratives, “Oslo” shows the intense fragility and contingency of human affairs
"Sweat" by Lynn Nottage won this year's Pulitzer Prize for Drama (photo: Joan Marcus).
Arts & CultureTheater
Rob Weinert-Kendt
"Sweat" tells the story of steelworkers whose long friendship unravels as their livelihood is threatened by free trade and immigration.
Jake Gyllenhaal in "Sunday in the Park with George" (photo: Matthew Murphy)
Arts & CultureTheater
Rob Weinert-Kendt
A good Sondheim show has the sinewy strength, both musically and dramatically, to thrive in the barest of renderings.
The cast of "Jitney" at Manhattan Theatre Club (photo: Joan Marcus)
Arts & CultureTheater
Rob Weinert-Kendt
Since he died in 2005, Wilson's stature has only increased, with his name regularly appearing on annual lists of the nation’s most-produced playwrights.
Arts & CultureFilm
Rob Weinert-Kendt

Is the form that defined mid-century American songcraft condemned to sputter along on the fumes of jukebox musicals and high-gloss family fare?

Falsettos
Arts & CultureTheater
Rob Weinert-Kendt
How the theater helps us to survive, and to challenge, politics
Arts & CultureTheater
Rob Weinert-Kendt
That is, if the promise of the New Testament is to be true that we might transcend our thorniest divisions.
EMOTIONAL SEESAW. Gillian Anderson as Blanche DuBois and Ben Foster as Stanley Kowalski.
Theater
Rob Weinert-Kendt
It is hard to imagine two more different writers or plays, but these two new stagings offer instructive contrasts.