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Doubtless Doubt
Whatever your opinion of the profundity of John Patrick Shanley’s Pulitzer- and Tony-winning 2005 play Doubt: A Parable—and views on that...
Jonathan Kalb
Mar 17, 20244 min read


Waiting for Nora
Stripped-down productions of classics are pretty familiar to New York theatergoers. We’ve had Ivo van Hove’s provocatively barebones...
Jonathan Kalb
Mar 24, 20234 min read


Learning Curve
Paula Vogel’s How I Learned to Drive is, famously, the play that blew the lid off the subject of pedophilia in the theater. At its...
Jonathan Kalb
Apr 23, 20224 min read


Solving the Lulu Problem
Frank Wedekind’s Lulu is the archetypal modern classic about a sexy woman. Precisely for that reason, it’s a very tough nut to crack...
Jonathan Kalb
Sep 25, 20195 min read


Kate Now and Then
In the winter of 1977, at age 17, I played Petruchio/Fred Graham in a Kiss Me, Kate production at my high school in suburban Baltimore....
Jonathan Kalb
Mar 31, 20195 min read


Mankind
I want the experience for the audience to be a sort of speeding train that gets completely and totally out of hand. --Robert O’Hara (New...
Jonathan Kalb
Jan 23, 20184 min read
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