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David Mamet’s New Play About Harvey Weinstein Is a Dud

Him Too

‘Bitter Wheat’ stars John Malkovich as a Weinstein-like Hollywood mogul and abuser. The play has been billed as a comedy and farce, but the audience isn't laughing.

Benedict Nightingale | Published Jun 20, 2019

The Boom and Bust of Lehman Brothers Is Not Good Theater

LOSS

‘The Lehman Trilogy’ promises to tell the rise and fall of an American banking institution, but it is woefully lacking when it comes to charting the disaster that finished it off.

Benedict Nightingale | Published Jul 12, 2018

Inside the Radical, Mischievous Mind of Tom Stoppard

Masterful

As the Tony Award-winning play ‘Travesties’ returns to Broadway, Benedict Nightingale celebrates playwright Tom Stoppard’s witty and powerful interrogations of culture and power.

Benedict Nightingale | Published Apr 22, 2018

Everybody Might Soon Be Talking About ‘Jamie’ on Broadway

Winning

The true story of a working-class teenager who loves dressing up in drag has been turned into a British theatrical hit. Now ‘Everybody’s Talking About Jamie’ may come to New York.

Benedict Nightingale | Published Dec 18, 2017

The Alien Feeling of Watching ‘The Twilight Zone’ on Stage

Frights

‘The Twilight Zone’ has been reimagined as a play, which just premiered in London. It feels a lot messier than the pristinely scary and alarming TV episodes of old.

Benedict Nightingale | Published Dec 17, 2017

Bryan Cranston Is as Mad as Hell, and Brilliant at It

Headliner

In London’s National Theatre adaptation of ‘Network,’ Cranston plays Howard Beale, the crazed, truth-telling newscaster, with a commanding fury and sense of bewilderment.

Benedict Nightingale | Published Nov 13, 2017

Sir Ian McKellen Is the Best Demon in ‘The Exorcist’

Head Spinning

In a stage adaptation of ‘The Exorcist’ in London, Sir Ian McKellen plays the unseen demon. Fewer bombastic shocks and a little more quiet menace would have been welcome.

Benedict Nightingale | Published Oct 31, 2017

Who Lives? Who Dies? Who Wins? This Play Needs Your Vote

Change

Rob Drummond's play, 'The Majority,' asks a metropolitan audience to vote on moral and political questions. The answers may be predictable, but the experience is still absorbing.

Benedict Nightingale | Published Aug 19, 2017

There’s a Musical Devoted to Bob Dylan, and It’s Brilliant

Masterful

Conor McPherson’s ‘Girl From the North Country’ is a dark play about fractured human relationships. Furnished with the songs of Bob Dylan, it has become a London theatrical hit.

Benedict Nightingale | Published Aug 03, 2017

This Is How Sam Shepard Revolutionized Theater

Radical

The playwright and actor Sam Shepard, who has died, leaves a legacy of astonishing plays about the America and its conflicted people, including the Pulitzer-winning ‘Buried Child.’

Benedict Nightingale | Published Jul 31, 2017

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