DF Reviews The Most Happy Fella at Encores, New York (April 2014)
Some things look so good on paper that success seems a sure thing. Take Encores second show of the season, The Most […]
DF Reviews The Realistic Joneses at the Lyceum, New York (April 2014)
What can I say about Will Eno’s intriguing, amusing, frustrating The Realistic Joneses, without revealing too much? I can tell you what it’s […]
DF City Paper Review — Three Sisters (Arden, 3 April 2014)
In the 20-plus years I’ve been attending the Arden, I’ve seen many fine shows, but this is something special. Faced with the […]
Death and Television: The Good Wife, James Rebhorn
They are two of modern life’s certainties, but still – when death and television collide, it shakes our world, as we saw […]
Requiem for the Boyd / Alas, Poor Theater (from the Archives)
The Boyd — then and now As I write this, demolition is underway at Philadelphia’s Boyd Theatre. Opened in 1928, it was […]
Interview with Christopher Durang (from the City Paper Archive)
The Philadelphia Theatre Company is presenting Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (previews begin March 21st, and the show runs through […]
DF Reviews Tales from Red Vienna at MTC, New York (March 2014)
You will see nothing sexier or more arresting this season than the first five minutes of Tales from Red Vienna. In a […]
DF Looks at HBO’s Looking
Two months ago, I watched the first episode of Looking, then I left it alone, and only recently came back recently to […]
DF Film Notes — Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil LeClercq
Most of the general public won’t recognize the name Tanaquil LeClercq, but ballet fans of a certain age absolutely will. For them […]
Critics & Criticism: Alastair Macaulay
I started this blog in part to explore arts criticism — who does it and why, what makes good (and bad) criticism, […]
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