Krapp's Last Horse
Akiva Gottlieb : The Short of It
With his new play Kicking a Dead Horse, Sam Shepard is still stranded in a prairie of tough-guy cliché.
2008
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Back Talk: John Turturro
Christine Smallwood
Actor John Turturro discusses his latest project, a production of Beckett's Endgame at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
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Tom Stoppard's Schlock 'n' Roll
J. Gabriel Boylan : The Short of It
When will we stop living in the '60s?
2007
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Waiting for Godot in a Wasteland
The most devastated neighborhood in America makes an ideal backdrop for a morally ambiguous play about abandonment.
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Nixon's Broadway Revival
Elizabeth Drew : Cultural Criticism & Analysis
Peter Morgan's new play is highly entertaining; Frank Langella's portrait of Nixon is brutally amusing; yet the play is historically inaccurate.
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A Dangerous Little Beehive?
A Cuban children's troupe has performed around the globe but finds it almost impossible to enter the United States.
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Liberalism's Lost Libretto
Tom Stoppard's epic Coast of Utopia speaks as much to the state of the American left as it does to the roots of Russia's revolution.
2006
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Beckett at 100
Margaret Spillane : Books, Literature, & Ideas
No playwright has given plainer witness to the planet's most violent century or borne such loving witness to the dispossessed.
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The World According to Karen Finley
Performance artist Karen Finley answers questions about politics, satire and her new book, a fantasy affair between George W. Bush and Martha Stewart.
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Too Hot for New York
My Name Is Rachel Corrie was a big hit in London, but the New York Theatre Workshop backed off from producing the play. Why is it so hard for Americans to have a healthy debate about Palestinian human rights?
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Bad Will Hunting
Two new books on Shakespeare examine his shadowy life, his times and the origins of his imagination. A third explores whether the Bard of Avon was, in fact, Edward de Vere.
2005
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Art, Truth and Politics
Harold Pinter : US Foreign Policy
In his lecture to the Swedish Academy December 7, Nobel Prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter excoriated the United States for hubris and manipulations of the truth over decades of abusive foreign policy, in particular the Bush Administration's war in Iraq. Here is the full text of his lecture.
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I Act, Therefore I Am
Admired from a distance and reviled up close, Laurence Olivier could establish a relation with his audience that was like an infection. His official biography chronicles a personal life of an actor who altered the cultural compass of a nation.
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The Most Revolutionary Art Form
Can a vibrant and cosmopolitan artistic scene help heal the wounds of Afghanistan's traumatic past?
2004
2003
This week: Imagining a new new deal, with Howard Zinn, Frances Moore Lappe, Andrea Batista Schlesinger, Eric Schlosser and...FDR himself. Plus: Ennis Carter and Stephen Duncombe on the political propaganda legacy of the WPA. (13mb mp3)
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