Befitting its subject, Retrograde stages a Raisin in the Sun moment.
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Category: London Calling
Let the Sunshine Out
Weather Girl positions the titular stereotype as a performance-art allegory for projecting culturally-popular femininity, and for society maintaining a cheery facade as the world approaches the climate brink.
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A Streetcar Named Almeida
Does London’s Almeida Theatre have a contract stipulation that each and every one of their transfers must retain the building’s natural backdrop?
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Third Rail
Despite the vocal consternation over mass desensitization, some imagery still possesses an inherent power to provoke.
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Right Kind of Wrong
I spent most of Tammy Faye unsure what to make of this new musical’s tone.
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Not Wrecked Yet
Does anyone else remember Anne Washburn’s Shipwreck?
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Lost or Gained in Translation
Prediction: theater historians will remember the 21st century for the mass dissemination of filmed productions.
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Semantics Matter
What do you call the bar that separates adjacent seats in a theater?
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AAA
Big Money is flooding into New York theater.
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Leave the Language, Take the Production
Financial precarity, thy name is theater funding.
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