Theater Review | 'Politics of Passion': A Bit of Talk Revealing the Failure of Words
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âPolitics of Passion: Plays of Anthony Minghellaâ consists of two short pieces that explore the limits of ordinary communication.
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Jonathan Marc Shermanâs play, while agreeably acted and directed, feels like an internal monologue distributed among four characters.
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There&#39;s a growing number of nonfiction films on current affairs, which usually means politics in this election year. They&#39;re diverse enough to prove Moore&#39;s brand of muckraking isn&#39;t the only way to bid for attention.
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Veteran British playwright Michael Frayn's distinguished political biography, "Democracy," has hit Broadway in the gut with its powerful re-examination of a headline case of Cold War betrayal in Germany, making ...
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âHomo Politicusâ ought to be a solemn book, but it reeks of unseemly glee.
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Nicholas Ostler's history charts Latin's rise and fall. Harry Mount's short primer makes a passionate case for studying the language.
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Ivo van Hove goes for the guts in this wildly tossed salad of a production of MoliÃ¨reâs greatest play.
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Three new plays explore disparate lives pushed together by music, strife, time, and friendship.
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Racial identity, feminism, literature, sexuality and Elizabethan history combine in a provocative rumination in Petronia Paleyâs solo show.
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If ever a play required a reading list, Tom Stoppard's ÂCoast of Utopia" is it. So letÂs get started.
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The literature of the American theater is chockablock with dysfunctional-family dramas, stories about fathers loathing mothers, wives resenting husbands, brothers and sisters who care too much
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Rather than delve into the clinical details of sexual desire and behavior, Catherine Breillat's reflects on what it means for a filmmaker to conduct such an inquiry.
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Merce Cunningham and colleagues have presented a retrospective series of evenings about his choreography called âHistory Matters.â
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Alfred Preisser, a founder of the Classical Theater of Harlem, has clumsily conflated the Euripides play âTrojan Womenâ with eyewitness accounts from civil wars in Liberia and Sierra Leone.
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David Mamet's new play,  "November," might concern an American president, but it isn't  much in the way of decorousness. Indeed, in this comedy by the  author of such plays as "Glengarry Glen Ross" and "American  Buffalo," there's more profane language on display in the Oval  Office than during the entirety of the Nixon administration.
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âTrumpery,â a play that opened this month in New York, explores a period teeming with religiosity and controversy.
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A campus comedy with a dirty mouth and a surprisingly wise mind, âFreshman Orientationâ uses identity politics as a road to romance and emotional maturity.