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34 stories by "Jonathan Kalb"

Missing Mason Jars ""Take Me Out," Second Stage by Jonathan Kalb

Walking out of the spiffy new production of Richard Greenberg's Take Me Out, my canny friend Tom, who was seeing the play for the first time, offered this quick take: "really interesting, bu…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:17am on June 2, 2022[SHARE]

Learning Curve""How I Learned to Drive," Manhattan Theatre Club by Jonathan Kalb

Paula Vogel's How I Learned to Drive is, famously, the play that blew the lid off the subject of pedophilia in the theater. At its premiere in 1997 it was startlingly fresh and shocking"not …

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 8:58am on May 29, 2022[SHARE]

Static Electricity: Beckett at Under the Radar by Jonathan Kalb

"Static" is one of those words from which most artists recoil. It's typically used for something felt to be listless, inert, and boring. In fact, physical stasis is an artistic tool, or at l…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 9:51pm on February 5, 2020[SHARE]

Dollhouse: Innovative New Plays for A Traditional Set Piece by Jonathan Kalb

An oddity of this theatrical season to ponder as we bid farewell to 2019:  In two current New York productions model houses"gorgeous, meticulously constructed, doll-size edifices that spl…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:15pm on January 22, 2020[SHARE]

"Judgement Day": Illusions of Grandeur by Jonathan Kalb

Two years ago, the British director Richard Jones brought a stunning production of Eugene O'Neill's The Hairy Ape to the Park Avenue Armory that set a new bar for theatrical use of that venu…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:32pm on December 21, 2019[SHARE]

"History of Violence" and How Your iPhone is a Culprit by Jonathan Kalb

First of all, don't be put off by the pompous, academic title. Thomas Ostermeier's extraordinary History of Violence, adapted from a much-discussed 2016 novel by the 27-year-old French li…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 2:53am on December 12, 2019[SHARE]

"Reparations" at the Billie by Jonathan Kalb

James Sheldon's Reparations is a new play about racial grievance, guilt, and retribution in America that, oddly enough, is both very smart and completely sincere. What I mean by that is t…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:15am on November 15, 2019[SHARE]

New Rapp: "The Sound Inside" by Jonathan Kalb

Adam Rapp is a polarizing playwright. After bursting onto the scene in 2001 with Nocturne " a long, moving monologue by a man who accidentally kills his sister and then reinvents himself as …

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:42am on November 10, 2019[SHARE]

Offense-Defense by Jonathan Kalb

(This post is part of the 2014 TCG National Conference: Crossing Borders {Art | People} blog salon, curated by Caridad Svich.)  Not long ago, malicious hackers and an unrele…

SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 1:52pm on June 6, 2014[SHARE]
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