In the program for “Beckett Briefs,” a bill of three short plays by Samuel Beckett at the Irish Repertory Theatre in New York City, three questions are posed: “Why these...
New York — In 2007, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., received an album of photographs documenting the experience of those who worked at Auschwitz-Birkenau. The images provide a...
He who has no stomach for this fight, let him depart! The Post’s Broadway critic Johnny Oleksinski claims that the people behind Denzel Washington’s “Othello” withdrew his invitation to review...
While the weather in New York is inching toward being springlike, the temperature in Brooklyn was considerably hotter on Tuesday night thanks to the rapturous reception for the opening of...
W.H. Auden, meditating on the role of the artist in a poem by W.B. Yeats, concluded that poetry “makes nothing happen.” While generally true, the precept doesn’t hold in the...
CHERNIHIV, Ukraine — The 43-year-old Ukrainian actor took to the stage wearing a black leather jacket and with a moustache painted on her face. Ruslana Ostapko was performing in multiple...
LOS ANGELES — The day after her house burned down, Lara Ganz sent a group message to the youth theater troupe she runs: They would not let the stop their...
A new revival of Suzan-Lori Parks’ “Topdog/Underdog,” even one as tepid as the one at Pasadena Playhouse, provides an opportunity to reflect on the work’s strange, eventful history. The play...
If you didn’t know Sean Baker’s name before Sunday night, you definitely do now. The director made history at the 97th Academy Awards on Sunday, becoming the first filmmaker to...
Sometimes, the first time is the charm. Julie Andrews, Lupita Nyong’o, and several other actors won Oscars for their very first film roles, even though many had already built successful...
