Staff / TruthdigDec 26, 2008
The theater world lost one of its brightest lights on Christmas Eve with the death of playwright Harold Pinter. The 78-year-old British Nobel Prize winner, whose best-known plays included "The Homecoming" and "The Birthday Party," succumbed to throat cancer on Wednesday. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Eunice Wong / TruthdigSep 19, 2007
The Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Anton Chekhov's "The Seagull" seems, at first, to be merely a skillful and familiar rendition of a masterpiece. But like many great works of art, the power of this production is cumulative. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )
Amy Goodman / TruthdigJun 13, 2007
Students at Wilton High School in Connecticut weren't allowed to discuss the war, unless it was with a military recruiter, so they wrote a play about it. "Voices in Conflict," which was quickly banned by the school, has made it to New York where it brought the audience to tears. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
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Eunice Wong / TruthdigMay 30, 2007
In her first Truthdig theater review, actor and writer Eunice Wong takes in director David Hare's stage production of "The Year of Magical Thinking," Joan Didion's haunting memoir about the sudden death of her husband (she would also later lose her daughter) and the heartbreaking mind tricks she used to try to conjure him back. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )
Eunice Wong / TruthdigMay 30, 2007
In her first Truthdig theater review, actor and writer Eunice Wong takes in director David Hare's stage production of "The Year of Magical Thinking," Joan Didion's haunting memoir about the sudden death of her husband (she would also later lose her daughter) and the heartbreaking mind tricks she used to try to conjure him back. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMay 24, 2006
Just before the start of a theater show in the East Village of New York, a woman on stage extols the virtues of London honeymoons. It's an advertisment that is itself advertised as the first live theatrical commercial.
Are those the four horsemen of the apocalypse I see yonder? Dig deeper
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