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Articles Written by: WILBORN HAMPTON
On its opening night a century ago, at the Abbey Theater in Dublin, J. M. Synge’s “Playboy of the Western World” was booed and hissed off the stage, and riots erupted in front of the theater for a week. A revival by the Pearl Theater Company drew no ...
Poor Herman Melville. A century and a half after critics savaged “The Confidence-Man,” the last novel he published in his lifetime, the Woodshed Collective has mounted a theater piece of sorts called “The Confidence Man” aboard an old Coast Guard ...
The heartache that laps the shores of Rainwater Pond is enough to fill a volume, and in 2006 Billy Roche published a dozen stories tied to that “black and bottomless” quarry in the west of Ireland in a book titled “Tales From Rainwater Pond.” As part ...
The New Orleans flophouse of Tennessee Williams’s “Vieux Carré” contains a collection of lost souls living on imagined glories, past or future, and desperately looking for an escape route through sex or drugs or both. In a commendable revival for the ...
The title of Leslie Lee’s play “Sundown Names and Night-Gone Things” comes from a reference an insurance salesman makes about women who trade sex for premium payments, and that about sums up the whole of Mr. Lee’s play.
Stephen Tyrone Williams and ...
The final approach of the Enola Gay to its target lasted four minutes. The bomb, named Little Boy, was released at 8:15 a.m. on Aug. 6, 1945. The only entry in the co-pilot’s diary was, “My God.” Nearly 100,000 people were killed instantly in Hiroshima, ...
Of all the travails that adolescence brings, one of the most anguished is the inevitable separation of childhood friends as their lives diverge. In “Christmas Is Miles Away,” Chloe Moss’s well-observed and ultimately engaging three-hander now being ...
The Aquila Theater Company seems to have adopted World War II as a theme for its season. Its first offering in November was an adaptation by Peter Meineck, the company’s director, of the Joseph Heller novel “Catch-22.” Its latest venture, at the ...
Rachel Botchan and Bradford Cover in the Pearl Theater Company's production of "Tartuffe."
Hypocrisy never seems to go out of fashion, and Molière’s cautionary tale of the perils of holier-than-thou religious fervor is as timely as ever, though the ...
From left, Danny Boushebel and Mohammad Jamil Dagman are Iraqi brothers in "Baghdadi Bath," running through Sunday at La MaMa E.T.C.
In the view of Jawad Al Assadi, modern-day Iraq is like a deserted bathhouse where the tubs are filthy with old ...
