200 stories by "Dmitry Zvonkov"
In Yukio Mishima's KINKAKUJI, currently playing at Japan Society, the impeccably cast Major Curda is mesmerizing as Mizoguchi, a Zen monk-in-training who, in 1950, ends up burning down the K…
GHOSTS WILL POSSESS YOU The world is full of ghosts, and some of them are still people. "Peter Straub, The Throat Outstanding performances from a first-rate cast and Jack O'Brien's expert di…
Metamorphoses is the third show by Dmitry Krymov and Krymov Lab NYC that I have seen (the first was Three Love Stories Near the Railroad; the second Pushkin "Eugene Onegin" In Our Own Words)…
HAIL MARY "Based on the letters of Mary Queen of Scots, Mary… is the testimony of Mary Stuart as she awaits martyrdom, accused of involvement in the most notorious plots of the time. On th…
ADD THIS TO YOUR BECKETT LIST Beckett Briefs: From the Cradle to the Grave, comprised of three short works by the playwright"Not I, Play, and Krapp's Last Tape"soundly directed without inter…
PUTIN ON THE FRITZ The most entertaining part of Manhattan Theater Club's Vladimir, which opened tonight at NY City Center, was the tirade the woman sitting behind me went into during interm…
PATRIOTS THEATER REVIEW The excellent Michael Stuhlbarg is continuously entertaining in Peter Morgan's bio-play Patriots, leading the cast as Boris Berezovsky, a Russian-Jewish mathematician…
DEAD MEAT There is a notion floating around that critics get pleasure from bashing shows. I can't speak for everyone, but it's been my experience that most reviewers love the theater. Person…
The death of childhood is the beginning of poetry. " Andrei Tarkovsky "This is a children's show," informed the Krymov Lab NYC stage manager after showing us where we could hang up our coats…
A VICTORIOUS ROMP In Ossie Davis's 1961 play Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch"which opened last night at The Music Box Theatre"all the black residents of co…
A SHARK HAS TO KEEP MOVING FORWARD, OR ELSE IT DIES " WHAT WE HAVE ON OUR HANDS HERE IS A LIVING SHARK Stories abound about the problem-plagued production of Steven Spielberg's 1975 blockbus…
A NOT-SO-DEMON BARBER ON INCOHESIVE STREET Annaleigh Ashford's thoroughly delightful and sympathetic portrayal of Mrs. Lovett, the good-humored but sinister piemaker is, unfortunately, one o…
A GOOD SIGN FOR BROADWAY First-rate performances and Anne Kaufman's near-flawless direction work well to conceal the few shortcomings in Lorraine Hansberry's thoughtful and compelling The Si…
NOW AND ZEN Coming out of the Baryshnikov Arts Center after watching its current offering The Hunting Gun, I overheard a woman ask her husband what he thought of the show. Good, but long, he…
THIS RAT MAY BE A LITTLE SQUEAKY, BUT IT'S WORTH GETTING CAUGHT IN ITS TRAP Elizabeth Gray is perfect as Olive Lloyd-Kennedy, the kind insightful dry-witted writer who predicts disaster if h…
WHAT'S BEEN DONE TO DEATH What cache Arthur Miller's 1949 classic Death of a Salesman has in terms of power and artistry, nuance, subtlety and insight, is buried by Miranda Cromwell's ineffe…
SEE THE LIGHT Illustrious lighting designer Jennifer Tipton will share an exhibit of light in Baryshnikov Arts Center's Jerome Robbins Theater for three performances only, November 17-19, 20…
THE PUBLIC THEATER ANNOUNCES CASTING FOR WORLD PREMIERE PLAY CULLUD WATTAH Written by Erika Dickerson-Despenza Directed by Candis C. Jones Above is the cast for the world premiere of CULLUD …
PERFORMANCES BEGIN SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2021 LIMITED 7-WEEK ENGAGEMENT The amazing theater company BEDLAM is coming back to New York with PERSUASION, a new play by Sarah Rose Kea…
ORIGINAL CAST MEMBERS OF THE JACKSONIAN UNITE FOR WORLD PREMIERE RECORDING The New Group will present as part of its Reunion Reading Series Beth Henley's The Jacksonian. featuring original c…
EVERYTHING IS HAPPY INDEED In Jesse Eisenberg's very funny and poignant one-act Happy Talk the excellent Susan Sarandon plays Lorraine, an amateur actress whose rosy, self-serving delusions …
SOC ON THIS Perhaps one of the reasons Socrates has become a god-like figure in the world of philosophy is that we know very little about the actual man who existed during the dawn of writin…
DONE TO DEATH "I thought we might show more decorum by keeping our long miserable mistake to ourselves," Alice tells Edgar after he expresses his intention to celebrate their silver wedding …
CASTE ASIDE Todd Solondz, one of the most profound filmmakers working today (Happiness, Welcome to the Dollhouse), begins his first play Emma and Max — which he also directs —…
THIS ONE’S A BEEPER Richard Saudek's one man show beep boop begins with a man struggling to break through an elastic translucent membrane. He succeeds and is born — spit out of a…
