Those who haven’t read Eugene O’Neill’s The Emperor Jones will leave the Irish Repertory’s new production occupied with a single question: is this a bad play, or is it just a contrived staging? They’ll be nearly mystified at their dulled senses and likely disappointed that the spectacle hasn’t inspired less ireful considerations. (Those who’ve read [...]
Author Archives: Adam Kosan
Review: The Playboy of the Western World at New York City Center
October 14, 2009 – 7:00 am
Early twentieth century Irish theater has a hard time in America today. The accents, which are integral to the cadences of the old peasant idiom, are frequently a problem for our actors, who not only struggle to produce plausible tones but often deliver limply the words of the theater’s great writers, W.B. Yeats and J.M. [...]
Kandinsky at the Guggenheim
September 28, 2009 – 3:21 am
Kandinsky at the Guggenheim is a major event in New York. Six levels of the museum have been devoted to the painter’s canvasses – nearly 100 of them – in a retrospective that ranges from 1902-1942 and draws mostly from the three largest public holdings of his work: the Guggenheim Foundation, the Centre Pompidou in [...]
