Arthur Miller Probes Money vs. Morality in Superb Post-War Shocker by Emily S. Mendel No drama could meet the moment more than this transcendent, heart-wrenching 1947 Tony Award-winning play about two business partners and their intertwined families in which an innocent partner bears the brunt of the greed and cowardice of the other. By the…
Gary Graves Ponders Collapse of Empires, from Greece to US by Emily S. Mendel Three thousand years ago, a grandmother and her granddaughter live alone on the Greek island of Kasos. They eke out a farming existence with hard work and resolute anger. Down to their last goat, symbolizing the end of their livelihood, a…
Martyna Majok’s Darja Struggles to Survive in New Jersey by Emily S. Mendel Thank you, Oakland Theater Project, for producing “Ironbound,” a taut, tense, yet tender and loving exploration of a Polish immigrant’s struggles to find a decent and secure life for herself in industrial New Jersey. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Martyna Majok knows the…
James Ijames Gives “Hamlet” Brand-New Black American Look by Emily S. Mendel “Fat Ham” is a rollicking comedy that won the Pulitzer Prize in 2022. Acclaimed playwright James Ijames takes a new look at Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” by transposing the characters to a modern Black family in North Carolina. He makes tragedy into comedy—a great idea….