Garrett Eisler started the blog, The Playgoer, in May 2005. He has also reviewed theatre for the Village Voice and Time Out New York, and written articles for American Theatre magazine, Stage Directions, and the Best Plays Theater Yearbook series.
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NBC's new American Idol-esque reality show.
America finally gets to see the controversial London play about a young US activist who died in Gaza.
Meryl Streep returns to the stage for New York's hottest ticket: Brecht's timeless war play, Mother Courage, in New York's Central Park.
Liev Schreiber and Jennifer Ehle star in Shakespeare's Macbeth in New York's Central Park.
Mark Ruffalo, Lauren Ambrose, and Ben Gazzata star in a Broadway revival of Clifford Odets's 1935 Group Theatre classic, Awake and Sing!
Cate Blanchett live on the New York stage as Ibsen's gloom & doom anti-heroine Hedda Gabler.
A sneak preview review of the new Broadway revival of Sondheim's masterpiece, Sweeney Todd. Starring Patti LuPone and Michael Cerveris.
The new Broadway revival of Mamet's classic "Glengarry Glen Ross" sparkles with life, and laughs, but may be losing the message of a bleak darker comedy.
Everything that is best about Spamalot is what's new, not what comes from the film of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Eric Idle and Mike Nichols have created something very distinct, something just a wee bit Python, and a lot... well, Mike Nichols.
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