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Michael Feingold

January 24, 2019 5:00 am

The Feingold Column: Explaining Alvin Epstein

When the great, polymathic actor died in December, the theater lost one of its most remarkable artists

December 13, 2018 5:00 am

The Feingold Column: That ‘Fiddler’ Incident

Fiddler tour

A drunk yells, a panic starts, a columnist worries. Should he?

November 21, 2018 5:00 am

The Feingold Column: A Great Playwright’s Odyssey

Maria Irene Fornes

The late María Irene Fornés wandered through many forms, rewriting the rules as she went

October 30, 2018 6:00 am

The Feingold Column: How Can Theater Confront Its Past?

michael feingold

Recent revivals of problematic classics such as Carousel and My Fair Lady recognize a problem but don’t solve it

October 1, 2018 6:00 am

The Feingold Column: Doing Without Theater

michael feingold

In his debut column for New York Stage Review, the longtime Village Voice critic reflects on a season of no playgoing

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Kramer/Fauci: Friendly Adversaries Tangle Over AIDS Progress

By David Finkle

★★★★☆ Highly resourceful conceiver-director Daniel Fish gets theatrical again

Slam Frank: An Equal Opportunity Offender

By Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★☆☆ The Jewish teen author/Holocaust victim gets an audacious 21st-century musical glow-up

The Hairy Ape: The First Zoo Story

By Michael Sommers

★★★☆☆ Jon Beavers depicts a primitive man lost in the civilized world in Irish Rep’s revival of an early O’Neill classic

The Hairy Ape: Hairier Would Be Scarier

By David Finkle

★★★☆☆ Ciarán O'Reilly directs the revival, Jon Beavers is the supposedly gorilla-like protagonist

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Just in Time: Jeremy Jordan Will Be Your Bobby Darin From Now On

★★★★☆ Replacing Jonathan Groff, the Broadway veteran delivers a stellar turn in the musical that merits a repeat viewing.

The Saviors: What Would Jesus Do?

★★★★☆ Writer Bubba Weiler and director Jack Serio offer a tender drama of faith and friendship

Giulia The Poison Queen of Palermo: Pure Theatrical Alchemy

★★★★★ Death really does become her, as the writer, composer and star - Jennifer Nettles - serves up a killer new musical.

women of Birthright

Birthright: Six Characters in Search of a Common Ground

★★★★☆ Politics underscore but don’t overpower the character-driven epic from Jonathan Spector

Melanie Moore in Black Swan. Photo by Hawver and Hall

From Cambridge, MA: Black Swan, Tu-Tu Thrilling

★★★★☆ Classy musicalization of a psychosexual cinethriller uses human and technical legerdemain to spellbind

Death of a Salesman: More Relevant Than Ever

★★★★★ Nathan Lane, Laurie Metcalf and Christopher Abbott star in Joe Mantello's emotionally searing revival.

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