Some marriages were meant to be.
Signature Theater Company has been something of an orphan of late, having been invited to, then booted out of a planned World Trade Center performing arts center last year. It has a home on the West Side, but has been looking for a bigger one in which to Read More
Charles Mee’s plays are like literary Frankensteins. He rips apart ancient Greek tragedies, stitches in snippets from blogs, the evening news and Kelly Clarkson songs, then jolts them with his own prose until they’re ready to stagger, or rather dance, on Off Broadway stages. Mr. Mee’s recent concoction, Iphigenia 2.0, a Greek tragicomedy about a Read More
When it opened on Broadway six years ago, I wrote of August Wilson’s King Hedley II that it was a mighty and messy and frightening achievement. Its power resides in ecstatic visions and parables that pour from the gut of a disenfranchised people; its howl of black grief and chronicles of death foretold are terrible Read More
Among the shows I’m looking forward to this fall (accompanied by a few prayers), let me begin by celebrating the innovative season of August Wilson plays at the Signature Theatre Company. Mr. Wilson’s great dramas, forged in the chains of American history, speak magnificently for themselves. But nothing speaks more positively for the future of Read More
Among the shows I’m looking forward to this fall (accompanied by a few prayers), let me begin by celebrating the innovative season of August Wilson plays at the Signature Theatre Company. Mr. Wilson’s great dramas, forged in the chains of American history, speak magnificently for themselves. But nothing speaks more positively for the future of Read More
One of the more curious aspects of the planning for a memorial at Ground Zero has been the bizarre preoccupation with allocating space to a cultural institution. The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, along with the city’s Department of Cultural Affairs and the state’s Council on the Arts, have been weighing two main proposals: the New Read More
