LaTanya Richardson Jackson’s sharp direction keeps ‘The Piano Lesson’ mostly in tune
Thankfully in the current revival at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, director LaTanya Richardson Jackson (the first woman to ever direct an August Wilson play on Broadway) artfully pilots a contemporary and comedic rendition of the work, even if she doesn’t quite stick the landing.
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Is the American Dream Worth the ‘Death of a Salesman?’
Can you put a price tag on a life? In America, it seems as though you must. In the land of dreams, everything you have and everything you are, is what you can sell. Or at least that’s what’s been drilled into Willy Loman (Wendell Pierce), the protagonist of Arthur Miller’s seminal work Death of […]
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This ‘1776’ Forgets the Very People It’s Claiming to Serve
The revival of 1776 – a musical about the all-male, all-white Founding Fathers signing the Declaration of Independence – which opens tonight at the American Airlines Theatre, begins with several women, trans, and nonbinary actors of various races and body types entering the stage in modern dress and putting on historical costumes. Among them is […]
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