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Jonathan Kalb
Mar 17, 20244 min read
Doubtless Doubt
Whatever your opinion of the profundity of John Patrick Shanley’s Pulitzer- and Tony-winning 2005 play Doubt: A Parable—and views on that...
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Jonathan Kalb
Mar 24, 20234 min read
Waiting for Nora
Stripped-down productions of classics are pretty familiar to New York theatergoers. We’ve had Ivo van Hove’s provocatively barebones...
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Jonathan Kalb
Apr 23, 20224 min read
Learning Curve
Paula Vogel’s How I Learned to Drive is, famously, the play that blew the lid off the subject of pedophilia in the theater. At its...
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Jonathan Kalb
Sep 25, 20195 min read
Solving the Lulu Problem
Frank Wedekind’s Lulu is the archetypal modern classic about a sexy woman. Precisely for that reason, it’s a very tough nut to crack...
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Jonathan Kalb
Mar 31, 20195 min read
Kate Now and Then
In the winter of 1977, at age 17, I played Petruchio/Fred Graham in a Kiss Me, Kate production at my high school in suburban Baltimore....
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Jonathan Kalb
Jan 23, 20184 min read
Mankind
I want the experience for the audience to be a sort of speeding train that gets completely and totally out of hand. --Robert O’Hara (New...
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