The Wicked Stage

A fabulous new painkiller that works by telling you which plays suck and which plays rule, or an innocent typo ? Update: Darn, the byline...

I found Katori Hall's Hoodoo Love surprisingly tasty . (Photo by Jason Crockett.)

Wooster Group. Hamlet . Need I say more ?

My review of Jim Knable's new play is here . (Photo by Ari Mintz.)

I was a speech and debate nerd--actually, only the "speech" part, in such revered events as "poetry interpretation" and ...

They're no replacement for the full-length reviews, but this compendium of Pauline Kael capsules seems like a pretty indispensible Web ...

Though I enjoyed reading both Isherwood and Butler on it, I also enjoyed Fuerzabruta a bit more than they did. (Photo by Ari Mintz.)