Theater

I’m Gonna Pray for You So Hard (Atlantic Theater, New York, January 2015)

In Halley Feiffer’s I’m Gonna Pray for You So Hard, two damaged egos go at it, though (initially, at least) it’s hardly […]

The great thing about Doubt, John Patrick Shanley’s slender but effective drama about child abuse in the church, is that our sympathies […]

A sad truth that’s dawned on me as I’ve gotten older: We may all be, as our doting mothers told us, “unique” […]

It’s been a strong Philadelphia theatre season so far, and the Winter/Spring has quite a few more promising events. I’ve compiled the […]

“Slotted spoons don’t hold much soup.” “The prettier the flower, the farther from the path.” “Opportunity is not a lengthy visitor.” To […]

Here’s a lesson to frequent theatre goers who think they know a lot – don’t expect that what established, experienced artists have […]

And God saw the light, that it was good… So the Bible tells us, but I’m not sure you’d know it to […]

On Facebook, I offered a more-or-less ongoing (and more-or-less snarky) commentary about last night’s Peter Pan… but I want to recap my […]

This will seem an odd admission for a theatre critic, but here goes: I’ve never been entirely convinced by Death of a […]

Good things come to those who wait. Slow cooking yields the best flavor. You might want to keep these aphorisms in mind […]