‘Topdog/Underdog’ Review: Not What It Once Seemed

A review of Topdog/Underdog by Charles Isherwood | October 20, 2022

At some point during the more than 20 years since Suzan-Lori Parks’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “Topdog/Underdog” made its debut, the play passed its sell-by date.

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This “Piano Lesson” Hammers the Obvious Note Over Its Head

Juan Michael Porter II | October 13, 2022

The best horror films understand that what is left unseen is more powerful than anything that could ever appear on-screen. And though August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, The Piano Lesson is no horror flick, when staged well, its treasure trove of invisible forces and tensions leaves even the most stoic audiences alternating between pathos, humor, […]

Is the American Dream Worth the ‘Death of a Salesman?’

Ran Xia | October 9, 2022

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 […]