Jonathan Kalb6 days ago3 min readButter on Cheese on SchmaltzYears ago in Berlin, I watched an older, ruddy-cheeked German friend—now deceased—smear a quarter inch of butter on a large cracker, then...
Jonathan KalbOct 132 min readMedea Re-RappedLuis Quintero’s Medea Re-Versed is the most inspired new classical adaptation I’ve seen onstage in years. It’s also the funnest night of...
Jonathan KalbOct 125 min readWhose Town?Thornton Wilder’s Our Town (1938) is a curiously schizoid classic. It first earned critical admiration for its supposedly...