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History is written by the winners, and in the war between the generations the younger generation is always the winner. [Read more...]

Stalag 17

“I see nossing! NOSS-ING!”

Fans of vintage TV won’t fail to recognize Sgt. Schultz’ signature line in “Hogan’s Heroes.” Set in a World War II German POW camp, the show chronicled the madcap antics of clever American POWs who outwitted their lovably bumbling Nazi captors at every turn. [Read more...]

The Lisbon Traviata

Mendy is bogged down with boundless melancholy. No one seems to love him. He is divorced.  His material wealth masks his spiritual emptiness. He is cut off from the outside world in his opera box-like apartment [Read more...]

Curtain Call – meet the 2010 Helen Hayes nominees – Part 1

Leading up to the April 5th Helen Hayes Awards, we’ve created a virtual pre-show party with over 100 Helen Hayes nominees attending. In one corner, the designers talk about their transformative arts, [Read more...]

Curtain Call – meet the 2010 Helen Hayes nominees – Part 2


Welcome to part 2 of our series of interviews with this year’s Helen Hayes nominees. [Read more...]

Humble Boy

Tell me if you think this is funny: A young man is called home from his studies upon the sudden death of his father. Arriving, he discovers his mother in the arms of a local vulgarian, [Read more...]

New play about Shakespeare wins $25,000 prize

Zacarías’ Legacy of Light is runner-up

Equivocation, a play which imagines that William Shakespeare was commissioned by the government to write a play about the Guy Fawkes Gunpowder plot, has won the $25,000 Steinberg Award [Read more...]

Two shows post cancellations this weekend

Mar 26-2010 — Two productions have had to cancel performances this weekend: Keegan Theatre’s  Dancing at Lughnasa will not be performed Saturday, March 27th.  And the Friday and Saturday performances of High Fidelity at Warehouse are also canceled.

New Conor McPherson film, The Eclipse

I was delighted when Linda Murray, Artistic Director of Solas Nua, agreed to interview Irish playwright Conor McPherson and actor Ciarán Hinds on their new film “The Eclipse” from Magnolia Pictures. [Read more...]

My Name is Asher Lev

When I was a young girl, I burned for Asher Lev. While others pined for rock stars or sitcom cuties, I and a handful of like-minded geek-girls used to read Chaim Potok’s 1972 novel over and over and sigh over Asher Lev [Read more...]