Life Makes Us Better Readers: Tess Gallagher’s ‘The Man from Kinvara’
Gallagher's work often suffers unfairly beside famous husband's Raymond Carver. The Man from Kinvara should permanently remedy this.
Theatre
Laughter, Tears, Curtain: Nicholas Hytner Recalls His Time Running the National Theatre
Hytner's account of his time as Artistic Director of the National Theatre, Balancing Acts, offers scattered insights but lacks purpose and precision.
Asta Nielsen and Fatma Girik’s Hamlets: Old Mysteries, New Problems
Wherein Hamlet is no longer a neurotic male in princely guise but a woman invested with an identity crisis.
Broadway’s ‘The Play that Goes Wrong’ Is More Tiresome Than Winsome
The Play That Goes Wrong aims for oversized laughs via an outlandish caricature of a murder-mystery performed within.
Five Lives in 15 Broad Strokes: An Interview With LaChanze
Through a one-woman show and new EP, "Feeling Good" celebrates the multi-faceted life of Tony Award-winning performer LaChanze.
The Spoiled Little Man-Child They Made King: Celebrity, Richard II, and Donald Trump
Did Shakespeare predict Trump? No. That's ridiculous. He just wrote a play about a thin-skinned, petty, self-aggrandising narcissist whose poor leadership drove an empire to ruin. Totally different.
‘Split’ the Difference: An Interview With Actor Betty Buckley
The Tony-winning actress is the emotional center of M. Night Shyamalan's new film Split, and like the movie, there's more beneath the surface.
Shakespeare’s ‘As You Like It’ Trumps Reality TV
Shakespeare's As You Like It employed every signature reality show convention three and a half centuries before television even existed.
Stage 773’s Comedy Ensemble Unlikely Company Finds Their Footing in Farce
Unlikely Company’s talented ensemble finds both the humor and the melody in adult life, urging us to laugh at our own indulgent banality.
‘Dissent & Disruption: Alan Clarke at the BBC’ Is a Radical Revelation
Period adaptations, pagan pastorals, hard-hitting experimenta, and Bowie in Brecht: the BFI’s collection of Alan Clarke’s work at the BBC is essential, revelatory viewing.
The Pleasure of New Challenges: An Interview With Andrzej Chyra
The acclaimed Polish actor talks about collaborating with Warlikowski and Skolimowski, and the pleasure of playing Hippolytus opposite Isabelle Huppert in Phaedra(s).
Ralph Fiennes and Vanessa Redgrave Re-team in the Almeida’s Excellent ‘Richard III’
Rupert Goold’s spare, intense production divests Richard III of any pantomime associations and boasts an astounding performance from Ralph Fiennes as the treacherous monarch.