Drama Review: ‘Cymbeline’
Just why Shakespeare’s “Cymbeline” is rarely performed really isn’t a mystery. Scholars of the Bard rate it rather low, along with “Titus Andronicus” and...
Broadway Review: ‘The Coast of Utopia’
Fear not its daunting themes; Tom Stoppard’s “The Coast of Utopia: Voyage” is a grand and gratifying theatrical experience. The first part of his...
Patriots Week: Return to the Roots of Democracy
Contrary to popular legend, George Washington COULD tell a lie. And the nation’s first president, it seems, was a first class tale-teller, according to...
A Fear-Free New Year
‘Nothing is so much to be feared as fear,” wrote Henry David Thoreau in his journal in 1851. With characteristic pithiness, the great American...
Irish Eyes Are Smiling at Christmas
Like the Chieftains before her, fiddle player, composer, and bandleader Eileen Ivers is expanding the parameters of what is commonly thought of as Irish...
Looking at 9/11 from the Stage
‘A play about blue states, red states and all the colors in between,” says the press statement for “Adopt a Sailor” by Charles Evered....