Category: Reviews

Brutal, intense, and irreverent, the original “Terminator” (1984) was anything but a Sunday School story. And yet, it was one of the best messianic allegories …

Here’s one of my immutable rules of theatrical enjoyment: If there’s a play by George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, or Noel Coward in production, don’t …

Yasmina Reza is a French playwright whose works transcend barriers of language and culture to reveal the core of human relationships. She has a gift …

“Waiting for Godot” (directed by Anthony Page), Samuel Beckett’s masterpiece of existential angst, opened at Studio 54 on Broadway this spring with a sparkling cast …

Sometime in the 5th century a farmer sees that he has a problem. He needs to grow enough on a meager plot of tillable land …

Our economic disaster: last summer I was reading about it in Paul MuoIo and Matthew Padilla’s “Chain of Blame.” This year, my nose has been …

A few years ago, Durham’s official greeter put some novelty items on sale – coffee cups, T-shirts, baseball caps, etc. – each bearing the slogan …

Sometimes it takes an outsider to fix what’s wrong, or perhaps to remember what was so right. In 1966, “Star Trek,” the television series, made …

“State of Play” is a good old- fashioned newspaper thriller in which the curmudgeonly journalist solves the case using wits, not guns. The film is …

“The Soloist” begins in the way that “State of Play” ends: opening credits roll as newspapers are printed, bundled, and delivered. The papers are a …