Crazy Eddie’s Back! Plunge Goes Down Badly
Is it already a year since I wrote that Eddie Izzard is the funniest man on earth and possibly elsewhere? It is, and Mr. Izzard still is. It's a delight to have him back with us at Performance Space...
View ArticleJohn Osborne’s Look Back Has Had Happier Birthdays
Could you name, I wonder, the one play in the history of theater that has a birthday? When was Hamlet born? The premiere of The Three Sisters ? The date that Tony Kushner's Angels in America , the epic...
View ArticleIt’s Open War on Critics! Or At Least It Ought to Be
When it comes to critics, I'm with Nathan Lane. Then again, I'm not. Mr. Lane doesn't like critics one bit, and I can certainly sympathize with that. Critics are the kind of people who would send Hedda...
View ArticleWelcome to the Mad-Dog House, Thomas McCormack
Have you any idea, I wonder, how insane people are who write plays? Call them idealists, or dreamers, or the noblest of them all, but anyone who wakes up one day and says to himself "I think I'll write...
View ArticleOh, Just Hang Him! Angry Men, Sin-But No Drama
How can you change the entire meaning of a play by adding one word? Can you guess ? The play is all but over, you add one little word, and absolutely everything changes in an instant. I'll give you a...
View ArticleMemories of Arthur Miller: Take-Out, TV and Olivier
Perhaps we all felt we knew Arthur Miller, for to know a man's plays is to be on friendly terms with the man. I wouldn't pretend to have known Miller personally, but we met a number of times and talked...
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Fact, Fiction and the Theater: Truth Is, We Prefer Lies
As I was saying, I don’t go to Oprah Winfrey for the truth. I go to the theater instead. That fragile, fantastic thing we call the theater has always seemed to me to be the last place on earth where...
View ArticleFact, Fiction and the Theater: Truth Is, We Prefer Lies
As I was saying, I don’t go to Oprah Winfrey for the truth. I go to the theater instead. That fragile, fantastic thing we call the theater has always seemed to me to be the last place on earth where...
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Look Back in Anger: Rebels Without a Cause
Goldberg and Adam Driver not all that sure what they're talking about. (Roundabout Theatre Company) The arrival of Look Back in Anger, John Osborne’s revolutionary play about anger, decay and the rage...
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