Re-imagined in modern-day West Africa, Shakespeare's great Roman tragedy feels like an astounding new work.
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Theater Review (NYC): ‘House/Divided’ by The Builders Association at BAM
A tour de force of ultra-modern theater about the housing crisis has a brief, flashy run at BAM.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘The Caretaker’ by Harold Pinter at BAM
Davies, the homeless drifter of Pinter's first major success, is a larger-than-life creation in the best sense of that adjective.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Being Shakespeare’ with Simon Callow at BAM
A staged lecture on the life of Shakespeare, rhapsodically delivered by the noted Shakespearean and film actor Simon Callow.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Krapp’s Last Tape’ by Samuel Beckett, with John Hurt
Even after more than half a century, Samuel Beckett's extraordinary theatrical innovations retain the power to startle.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘The Diary of a Madman’ starring Geoffrey Rush
Pushed over the edge, Gogol's antihero descends into obsessions and decides he is the King of Spain.
Read More »Theater Review: ‘John Gabriel Borkman’ by Henrik Ibsen, with Alan Rickman and Fiona Shaw
The Abbey's star-studded production shows this problematic late work of Ibsen's in as good a light as you're likely to see.
Read More »Theater Review (Brooklyn, NY): A Streetcar Named Desire Starring Cate Blanchett, Directed by Liv Ullman
Five curtain calls for Cate Blanchett and Co.
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