Cruel Summer: Watching Picnic (for Parterre Box)
David and Cameron continue their survey of William Inge’s plays on video.
Mid-West Side Story: Watching Come Back, Little Sheba (for Parterre Box)
A friend once said that Laurence Olivier played American like it was a character choice.
REVIEW: This Was Sebastian’s Garden: Suddenly Last Summer via BBC (for Parterre Box)
Cameron and David’s latest plays on film post for Parterre considers this Tennessee Williams’ potboiler.
Sexy and sinewy: Dame Judi Dench in The Cherry Orchard (for Parterre Box)
Having just watched and written about the famous Actors Studio Three Sisters, it also feels right to turn now to The Cherry Orchard—Chekhov’s final play—in a production from the BBC.
A Problem Like Maria: Three Actresses in McNally’s Master Class (for Parterre Box)
Cameron and David consider performances by several actresses in the late Terrence McNally’s Master Class.
DAVID’S LIFE IN RECORDS: Part V: Vier Letzte Lieder
In a series for Parterre Box, David considers the records that helped shape his life.
Sisters were doing it for themselves (for Parterre Box)
What a filmed Three Sisters from 1966 can tell us about Method acting, Chekhov and more.
DAVID’S LIFE IN RECORDS: Part II: Ella Fitzgerald Sings Rodgers and Hart and Cole Porter
In a series for Parterre Box, David considers the records that helped shape his life.
REVIEW: Ghost “Story”: West Side Story on Broadway (for Parterre Box)
Thrilling reinvention, or calcified shtick? Our critics disagree…
REVIEW: Photographic Memory: Girl From the North Country (for Parterre Box)
For a show set during the hardscrabble 1930s, few performances suggest downtroddedness.
reclining standards 