Years ago in Berlin, I watched an older, ruddy-cheeked German friend—now deceased—smear a quarter inch of butter on a large cracker, then...

Luis 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...

Thornton Wilder’s Our Town  (1938) is a curiously schizoid classic. It first earned critical admiration for its supposedly...