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The Pearl Theatre Knows How to Philander
In a 1930 introduction to The Philanderer, George Bernard Shaw writes, “There is a disease to which plays as well as men become liable with advancing years. In men it is called doting, in plays...
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France, 1429
“Colbert’s co-conspirator in those days was the director and playwright Dexter Bullard, who would call him up and say, ‘Do you want to get in trouble?’ Getting in trouble meant hiring a hall, inviting...
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Fare You Well, Señor Satan
The Irish Repertory has not had a good year. First, there was Brian Friel’s stultifying, cringingly sentimental Dancing at Lughnasa, then Eugene O’Neill’s bloated, unbearable Beyond the Horizon. A...
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C’est la Vie, Say the Old Folks
George Bernard Shaw is at his best when he doesn’t take his social mission too seriously, when he is upending gender and class norms like a merry prankster instead of a dogmatic moralist. Thus, a line...
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Vibrations from Another Time
Tommy (Ciarán Hinds) is a lonesome Dubliner, an odd jobs man whose only companions are his buddy Doc (Michael McElhatton) and his landlord and uncle Maurice (Jim Norton). His room is strewn with large...
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Win Free Tickets to Saint Joan!
WIN TWO TICKETS TO BEDLAM’S SAINT JOAN ! Named one of Time Magazine’s TOP 10 PLAYS AND MUSICALS OF 2013! Bedlam’s SAINT JOAN has been declared “a production to be treasured” by the New York Times, and...
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Winner of Tickets to Bedlam’s Saint Joan
The winner is Teri Hilger. Congratulations, Teri! And thanks to all who participated.
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When You Don’t Have a Real Life, You Make Do with Dreams
While the Pearl Theater revives Uncle Vanya, Donald Margulies is rewriting it with The Country House, a drama that takes Chekhov’s interest in aging and disappointment and transplants it to the lives...
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Come and Make Explosives with Me
Major Barbara at first appears like a rather innocuous play, nothing that would inspire the economist Beatrice Webb to call it a “dance of devils” and “the triumph of the unmoral purpose”: Her children...
View ArticleYou and I and Pickering
Bedlam is a troupe of actors best known for their small-cast stagings of large-scale plays: there was the four-person Hamlet, and before that the four-person Saint Joan. In 2015, they began performing...
View ArticleIt’s Amazing How Well We Get Along, All Things Considered
If nothing else, the Gingold Theatrical Group has done us a great service in producing this version of George Bernard Shaw’s Heartbreak House. The play, inspired by Chekhov, was begun in 1913 and...
View ArticleThe Lion’s Mouth
Before Pygmalion and its Covent Garden flower girl Eliza Doolittle, George Bernard Shaw penned Caesar and Cleopatra, another comedy of metamorphosis. After arriving in Egypt, Caesar (Robert Cuccioli)...
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