The Brother/Sister Plays by Tarell Alvin McCraney, through Dec. 13th at the Public Theater. At 29 years old, playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney has been crowned “a major new voice” by enough critics, directors, dramaturgs, and producers that there is already something of a backlash in...
County of Kings. Written and performed by Lemon Andersen. At the Public Theater. A Boy and His Soul. Written and performed by Colman Domingo. At the Vineyard Theater. I recently showed my students some clips of documentary and political theatre, including Moisés Kaufman’s The Laramie...
A great text, a major director, an accomplished design team, and a skilled cast performing in a beautiful outdoor theatre on a summer night in North America’s cultural capital: By all rights, this should have been one of my favorite evenings in the theatre. It wasn’t. JoAnne...
Puppet Kafka. Written by B. Walker Sampson. Directed by Gretchen Van Lente. Presented by Drama of Works, at Here Arts Center The instruction manual to the widely praised video game Assassin’s Creed (Ubisoft, 2007) makes explicit comparison between control of the game’s avatar and...
“I don’t know how you do it, Frank. Every time I look out at the theatre scene in this city, all I see is a lot of crap.” This statement was part of an email I received last summer while trying to decide what I would write about for an upcoming article. When I was an...
