Theater Review | 'Sive': A Memory From a Long-Gone Recent Past
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Why is the respected Irish Repertory Theater throwing itself away on a clunky old melodrama like âSiveâ?
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This illuminating, ultimately touching show revisits the little-known but vibrant Yiddish cabaret that flourished in Warsaw from the early 1920s until it disappeared by Nazi design.
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Set at a small Catskills  resort in the 1950s, when writers were blacklisted for alleged  Communist sympathies, Michael Elias&#39; play is shot through with  the kind of nostalgia that signals deep personal involvement.  But it leaves out the details of why this means something to  him, and so it fails to engage the audience with an emotional  back story.
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Innocent by todayâs standards, the humor of âLove American Styleâ is typical of a show that titillated in its day but now plays like a mildly randy glimpse of a more promiscuous, less cynical era.
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In this deeply funny play, Horton Footeâs authorial gaze is focused with satiric sharpness while retaining its elegiac sense of lifeâs transience.
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Shakespeare's most problematic play Â at least with respect to modern sensitivities Â receives an intelligent interpretation from Michael Radford and a superb cast.
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HBO's film of segregation in New York is at its best when it captures the fleeting joys of lost days.
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Ready for a trip down memory lane, comrade? Insert your "commie quarter" and have a blast.
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Horton Footeâs âDividing the Estateâ is among the most acute analyses of flaws in the American psyche in the 21st century that the theater has come up with to date.
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Mike Leighâs play âTwo Thousands Yearsâ is enjoyable, but oddly conceived and structured.
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IN A RECENT interview, Michael Caine was reported to have expressed serious reservations about contemporary theatre. He was only interested in it, he said, if there was a guarantee of tap-dancing.
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Reviews of six shows at this yearâs festival of plays and performance pieces.
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In London this summer there have been two notable efforts to reclaim the past. The ever-venturesome Shakespeare's Globe, whose very architecture is an act of historicism, staged three performances in late June ...
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Three new plays explore disparate lives pushed together by music, strife, time, and friendship.
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This strange, beautiful play by Jorge Ignacio CortiÃ±as is set in that hazy place between the person you are and the person you want to be, or could be, or are in danger of becoming.
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This beautifully performed, touching one-act play is not quite the personalized cry against genocide that the playwright intends it to be.
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Seeing the movie brought back memories for the writer's family.