- 2/17/12 /
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Theater Reviews: The Stage Dive Weekend Roundup
Rinde Eckert, Paula Vogel, and (a fictionalized) Jayson Blair.
Scott Brown
- 2/6/12 /
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Theater Review: John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger
The explosive 1956 play comes to the Laura Pels.
- 1/13/12 /
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The Stage Dive Weekend Theater-Review Roundup
A multiple-choice weekend.
- 1/11/12 /
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The Stage Dive 2012 Theater Preview
Theater critic Scott Brown surveys the onstage landscape for the first half of this year.
- 12/15/11 /
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Theater Review: The Entirely Bearable Lightness of Lysistrata Jones
Greek comedy, played strictly for laughs.
- 12/13/11 /
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Theater Review: Unfogging On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
A problem musical, recast.
- 12/9/11 /
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Theater Reviews: The Weekend Off Broadway Roundup
Richard II, Maple & Vine, and Neighbourhood Watch.
- 12/9/11 /
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Theater Review: The Tao of Oak Bluffs, Laid Bare in Stick Fly
The night belongs to the young actress Condola Rashad.
- 12/5/11 /
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Theater Review: Bonnie and Clyde: The Musical
Frank "Jekyll and Hyde" Wildhorn turns to crime.
- 11/11/11 /
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Theater Review: Hugh Jackman Is Your Best Broadway Pal
SNIKT! You're sold.
- 3/4/11 /
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Stage Dive: Three to See This Weekend
'The Method Gun,' 'Beautiful Burnout,' and 'Timon of Athens' offer rigorous good times off the beaten Broadway path.
- 2/18/11 /
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Stage Dive: The Sound and the Fury of Mandy Patinkin
Rinne Groff's ambitious new drama, 'Compulsion,' is about the man who first tried to turn Anne Frank's diary into a play, only to have it sentimentalized by Hollywood.
- 2/11/11 /
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Stage Dive: Your Anti-Spider-Man Master Cleanse
Four modest alternatives to arachnoid musical maximalism for those who simply like their theater to make sense.
- 2/2/11 /
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Stage Dive: Off Broadway’s Streak of Violence
Characters in plays are an actuarial nightmare
- 2/1/11 /
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Stage Dive: Olympia Dukakis Rides the Milk Train With Darkly Comic Monstrosity
As another of Tennessee Williams's randy old dowagers, Dukakis does the best she can with some truly strange text.
- 1/28/11 /
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Stage Dive: David Auburn’s Back! Sort Of
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of 'Proof' returns with an adaptation of a mothballed drawing room comedy by a playwright no one has heard of. And perhaps for good reason.
- 1/19/11 /
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Stage Dive: The Interminable Suicide of Gregory Church
British comedy hero Daniel Kitson's one-man show recounts how being a polite Brit can really put a damper on killing yourself.
- 1/14/11 /
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Stage Dive: Fiona Shaw and Alan Rickman Rip Into Ibsen
And who doesn't want to see that? Ibsen's nasty John Gabriel Borkman is at its black-comic best when these two bite into it.
- 1/14/11 /
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Stage Dive: An Absolutely Perfect (and Important) Earnest
Oscar Wilde's classic comedy is so ingrained in our shared comedy unconscious that it seems impossible to make fresh. That is, unless you're Brian Bedford.
- 1/13/11 /
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Stage Dive: Ethan Hawke Better Than Ever in Blood From a Stone
The play is flawed — a majestic wallow set to the music of blue-collar despair — but the voice of playwright Tommy Nohilly is very promising.
- 1/7/11 /
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Stage Dive: A Weekly Roundup, This Time With Vampires and Hot Sex!
Another vampire that sucks on Broadway, and two plays with amorous coupling for all ages!
- 12/20/10 /
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Theater Review: Watch an Actor Commit Career Suicide in His Apartment. One-of-a-Kind Theater You Don’t Want to Miss!
Ed Schmidt's haunting one-man show in his Brooklyn bachelor pad is about how theater has failed him in his hour of need.
- 12/14/10 /
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Breathless Countdown to Stephen Sondheim on The Colbert Report!
Personally, I'm hoping for an incredible two-man version of "Another National Anthem" from 'Assassins.'
- 12/10/10 /
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Theater Review: Edna O’Brien’s Haunted Is an Anglo-Irish Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
The play mates two dazzlingly great performances and gets under your skin, but it stops well short of a full Edward Albeean purge.
- 12/9/10 /
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Theater Review: A Blind Date You Will Actually Enjoy
Rebecca Northan has arrived at a remarkable insight: An unscripted comedy-hour is really no different than a blind date — right down to the two-drink minimum.