Here’s a few brief observations about Julia Roberts, now starring on Broadway in Richard Greenberg’s extremely slight 1997 Three Days of Rain.
What Antonin Artaud has described as a “strange sun”—a light of abnormal intensity that illuminates everything in the theater—can be cruel and merciless. Onstage, there’s nowhere to hide. The stage will always Read More
Here’s a few brief observations about Julia Roberts, now starring on Broadway in Richard Greenberg’s extremely slight 1997 Three Days of Rain.
What Antonin Artaud has described as a “strange sun”—a light of abnormal intensity that illuminates everything in the theater—can be cruel and merciless. Onstage, there’s nowhere to hide. The stage will always find Read More
In his 1998 masterwork, Blindness, José Saramago pricked one of the most cherished illusions of the modern world: the notion that we exert any meaningful control over our own lives. A dreamlike allegory narrated in a cool, dispassionate, often quite funny voice, Blindness pulled apart our unthinking urban routines with a simple, nameless terror: a Read More
I would like to offer 12 of my readers-12 men and women, tried and true-a bottle of champagne each if they would be good enough, or courageous enough, to boo Al Pacino in the star-studded revival of Bertolt Brecht’s The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui .
I don’t mean Mr. Pacino alone, though he’s bad Read More
