September 2011

Something’s Coming…

I Am Lion, Hear Me Roar — THE LION KING

Twenty-Four FOLLIES

Never Been North of 96th Street? — IN THE HEIGHTS

Broadway on 9/11

Everything Changes But the Avant-Garde — Arena Stage’s OKLAHOMA

Maybe She’s Born With It… Maybe it’s CYMBELINE

High Line Theatrics — Theater in the park

The Walkout — HIGHER GROUND and DOLL’S HOUSE

August 2011

Fading Palace — West Coast Theaters

Alison Bechdel: The Musical

Sad Summer Shakespeare

So Not True

Found in Times Square

Gertrude Stein Sees This — THIS, at LA’s CTG

July 2011

Eyreing the Dirty Laundry — Richard Eyre: Diaries

Yes, “Book of Mormon” is a Hit…

June 2011

Report from the Capital — London Theater Update

Poster Implants

With the Cast of “War Horse”

Carey Mulligan Back Onstage — THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY

Fleet Week on Broadway — BENGAL TIGER

“Artistic Ruins”?

May 2011

Alas, It’s True: We’re Gonna Die — You Jean Lee

Catch Me in the Country — CATCH ME IF YOU CAN

“Don’t Fire, the Guns are Loaded!”

Arcadia, Redux

The Motherfucker With the Phone – MOFO WITH THE HAT

Handouts at “The Normal Heart”

Signs of Doomsday

April 2011

Inside the Playbill Plant

Two New Plays: Of Church and TheaterĀ  – IHO and GO BACK…

Going Dark

Lessons from the Book Review

Dancing in the Aisles

Down and Dirty — JERUSALEM meets literature

An Adjustment on the Deuce

Tyvek and Gaff Tape — UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Nina Arianda: Spontaneous Combustion! — BORN YESTERDAY

Here Come the Royals! Report from Opening Night — PEOPLE IN THE PICTURE

March 2011

Spring Fever — season preview, plus GOOD PEOPLE

Whatever Happened to My Sweet Girl? — BLACK SWAN, TIGER MOTHER, etc.

Compulsion: The Cliffs-Notes

Theater Terroir — DREAM OF THE BURNING BOY

“Arcadia” and the Grid

How to Succeed in Criticism Without Really Trying — On Reviews

February 2011

Baby It’s Cold Outside – THE DIVINE SISTER is Charles Busch

Belarussian Update

Vanessa Redgrave Waxes Poetic

If You Loved Me You’d Vacuum — LA CAGE meets REAL HOUSEWIVES

Dating the Basketball Team — THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON

January 2011

Peace, Love, and Belarus — Protesting with the Public Theater

Birneys Horizons — A SMALL FIRE @ Playwrights

Unmasked Man — SPIDER-MAN: What really went onstage