525 stories by "Toby Zinman"
Where are the great acts I remembered? The trained cats? the galloping horses? the iron men? the Wheel of Death?
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"We are together."  This line is an often-repeated refrain in Death of a Driver, a grim new play by Will Snider presented by InterAct at the Drake's Proscenium…
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Q: How do you say schmaltz in French? A:Â Les Miserables. This long musical melodrama, based on Victor Hugo's long novelistic melodrama is currently wowing…
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Anna Faye Lieberman gives us the raging, disappointed, self-indicting, violent, drunk, lonely, and altogether wild-hearted Mary
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Modigliani at the Barnes Foundation is a ravishing exhibition in a ravishing venue.Â
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Two meditations on misfortune show us what it is to be "laughing wild amid severest woe."
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This is one for the life list if you're an opera fan.
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Tom Stoppard's newest play Leopoldstadt is coming to New York, and once again he is being talked about as if he were the second coming…
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Nobody writes crazy, despairing, desperate women like Tennessee Williams
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No woods. No cutesy pop-up book set. Just three hours of pure musical theater pleasure: gorgeous melodies, clever lyrics, profound ideas and a dream cast.…
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Lynn Nottage knows how to "sustain the complexity" so that this funny play with a serious agenda works
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What with James Ijames winning the Pulitzer Prize for Drama (bravo!) two days ago, the bar was set very high for his newest play
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Dilettante at Large (Toby Zinman) has awakened from her long pandemic slumber, and is once again writing about stuff she knows little about but enjoys, unlike theater which she knows quite a…
An impressively credentialed show from The Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in association with the Folger Shakespeare Library is launching its national tour in Philadelphia.
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What a brave return to live theater this production is! Lantern Theater Company gives us old-time drama and powerful theater, full of big ideas and complex language, rather than a bit of…
Sebastian Barry, author of The Steward of Christendom, is a major Irish playwright. I am a major fan of Irish drama. Irish Heritage Theatre, whose production of Steward just opened...
Families, as we know, have secrets
Playwright Lauren Yee's script is really two shows: an old-fashioned rock concert uncomfortably yoked to a somber history drama.
They sure don't write them like this anymore.Â
Sam Shepard can set up a world like nobody else
This solo show is performed by Satchel Williams, who can best be described as adorbs.Â
British auteur-director Simon Stone has rewritten the ancient Greek tragedy, Medea, to fit the contours of the contemporary worldÂ
Anna Moench's new, short, fascinating play is not to be missed.
Time travel as spiritual reality and a throbbing moral obligation
Johnnie Hobbs Jr. stars in a biographical play about Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall
