Toby Zinman

Review: 'Candide'


The gorgeous garden of the Bernstein score has been cultivated with humor and intelligence: no cutesiness, no compromises -- it's long, it's demanding but it's fine. And for a production without a…

Review: 'House, Divided'


"This is not our country. It belongs to the anointed goyim." Although "House, Divided" seems to be about the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, it's really about the America/Israel conflict over the…


Henry McGee

Review: 'Wittenberg'


The premise is clever, the allusions are clever, the one-liners are clever, but there's only so much cleverness you can take. "Wittenberg" is a Ph.D. thesis run amok -- a collection of footnotes that…

Review: 'Age of Arousal'


The U.S. premiere of Canadian Linda Griffiths' "Age of Arousal" is a tarted-up throwback, a "wild" reworking of George Gissing's 19th century novel "The Odd Women" without the Victorian shock value.

Review: 'Isabella'


If Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure" is, in part, a meditation on death and transfiguration, Pig Iron Theater Co.'s riff on that famously unfunny comedy takes these subjects literally.

Review: 'Mrs. Packard'


The fact that a story is true -- even if it's full of important issues and outrageous injustices -- doesn't necessarily make it dramatic, and Emily Mann's "Mrs. Packard" is more a theological soap…

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