Unlike his The Cherry Orchard at the Park Avenue Armory, if you renamed Simon Stone’s The Oresteia, some audiences may not even realize the text is a riff on Aeschylus.
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Category: London Calling
Oh What a Circus
Does Jamie Lloyd elevate Evita more than any interpreter has ever juiced the original material?
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Dollhouse
A theater becomes a travel destination for one of two reasons.
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A&A
“How about a Bloody Mary? No! No!”
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Specific to the Site
In theory, all theater is site specific.
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Doubling
oh, Honey and Inter Alia revolve around the same central premise:
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Aside
Given the scale of the spectacle and choreography, theatergoers prefer to sit farther away from the stage for large-cast musicals.
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Inter Script
American productions grant critics an analytical privilege that’s readily available to all British audiences.
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Rock the Boat
The exact same play can land differently on either side of the pond.
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Pursuing a Bear
The inscrutability of Shakespeare’s language is often cited as the primary reason that Americans have little interest in revisiting his plays again and again and again and and and so on and so forth.
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