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In 1971 and ’72, I worked in a theater company that had spun off from a graduate directing workshop at Yale taught by Nikos Psacharopoulos, a legendary teacher who founded the Williamstown Theatre Festival. We called ourselves N.A.T.E. –  the New America Theater Ensemble – until we were informed via a cease and desist…

The play is called Women Of A Certain Age, and we critics were invited to see it on the very evening it is set, November 8, 2016: Election Day. Although some of my colleagues were put out when Broadway producer Scott Rudin asked us to attend opening night of The Front Page, none of us has ever complained when asked to…

Pianos, heard but unseen, play central roles in family-centered dramas by distinctive American writers getting world premieres with crystalline, luminous productions. Richard Nelson’s What Did You Expect? at the Public Theater, and Nilo Cruz’s Bathing In Moonlight, at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, New…

Donald Trump’s name is never uttered in Richard Nelson’s quietly incandescent Hungry, a play that feels as fresh as if it was written this morning — which, in fact, it actually was, at least in part. Hungry, which opened Friday evening at the Public Theater, also took place on Friday evening, 24 hours after the latest…