Theater Talkback: Against Ovation Inflation
I would like to make the case, officially and urgently, for the return of the sitting ovation. Because we really have reached the point where a standing ovation doesn’t mean a thing.
View ArticleTheater Talkback: An Actress Makes a Choice and Two Others May Benefit
By choosing to play the lead in "The Lyons," for which she is Tony-nominated, Linda Lavin gave up two smaller parts that have earned nods for the actresses who took them on.
View ArticleTheater Talkback: Up Close, Feeling Very Personal
What better art than the theater, by its nature a collective experience, to consider the overlap between the individual and communal?
View ArticleTheater Talkback: Numbers That Stopped the Show on Tony Night
Charles Isherwood on some of his favorite YouTube clips of Tony Awards past.
View ArticleTheater Talkback: Boxers on Broadway
Mike Tyson will hardly be the first prizefighter to take to the stage after his athletic career is done.
View ArticleTheater Talkback: Making An Entrance
The way a character is introduced in the new play "3C" gets Alexis Soloski thinking about the art of the stage arrival.
View ArticleTheater Talkback: A Chorus of Voices
Playwrights throughout the ages, as different as Brecht and Thornton Wilder, have adapted choruses to their own latter-day purposes.
View ArticleTheater Talkback: A Time and a Place to Experiment
Sarah Ruhl explains why the playwrights' collective 13P has chosen not to invite critics to see her new work. "Melancholy Play."
View ArticleTheater Talkback: ‘The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,’ Take 2
Mike Daisey is back with a new version of "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs." Charles Isherwood says he seems to have addressed some problems with the truth.
View ArticleTheater Talkback: Guts and Glory, Onstage
In praise of risk-taking in the theater: To give audiences views of things they've never seen before, great actors and actresses go out on a limb.
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