Features
Friday, December 22 2006
Rock of Stages: Hello Twelve, Hello Thirteen, Hello Lust
Can Duncan Sheik -- assisted by a fleet of 100-year-old horny German teens -- save the rock musical from itself?
Columns
Monday, June 19 2006
And Baby Makes a Mess
In which Sandra Oh inadvertently scares our columnist to death in a new play that's 'like birth control'.
Tuesday, April 25 2006
In Sickness and in Health
In Well, Lisa Kron asks, what is the difference between the healthy and the ill? And also, why does my mom keep fucking up my play?
Thursday, March 30 2006
Double Hedda
In New York, Henrik Ibsen's centennial is celebrated with a knockout showdown: It's Cate Blanchett vs. the robots, for the soul of Hedda Gabler.
Friday, March 3 2006
Keeping the Line Between the Past and the Present
Pulitzer Prize-winner Doug Wright talks to Performance Oriented about his new stage adaptation of Grey Gardens; or, How to Make 'Morbid Eccentrics' Sing and Dance.
Monday, January 30 2006
Peanuts Brittle
In Royal's theatrical adaptation of the Peanuts cartoon strip, Charlie Brown and the gang have grow older, been through some hard times. It's sometimes funny, sometimes morbid. But like it's one-dimensional inspiration, it never manages to get 'real'.
