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"Sometimes I need to feel nothing": Keith J. Conallen as the title character in "Don Juan Comes Home from Iraq" at the Wilma. (Photo by Alexander Iziliaev)

'Don Juan Comes Home from Iraq' at the Wilma (1st review)

A marine in freefall

A gripping play about veterans of the Iraq war is daring and frightening in its world premiere.

Steve Cohen

Mar 28, 2014 Articles 3 minute read

Gonglewski, Swartz, Madigan: In search of psychological liberation. (Photo: Mark Garvin.)

Durang’s ‘Vanya and Sonia’ by PTC

Six characters in search of a catalyst

Christopher Durang’s witty if lightweight comedy Vanya and Sonia poses a puckish literary question: If Chekhov’s characters were given a second chance to pursue the road less taken, where would they go?

Dan Rottenberg

Mar 27, 2014 Articles 4 minute read

Morahan (left), with Susannah Wise: A fist in the mouth. (Photo: Alastair Muir.)

‘A Doll’s House’ in Brooklyn

The Scream comes to life

The resemblance between Munch’s terrified figure in The Scream and Hattie Morahan as Ibsen’s tortured protagonist, Nora, is even scarier than the lot of modern women.

Carol Rocamora

Mar 22, 2014 Articles 5 minute read

Death of Caesar, Japanese-style: Political marriages of convenience. (Photo: Mark Garvin.)

Lantern’s ‘Julius Caesar’ (2nd review)

The man who made ‘dictator’ a dirty word

Charles McMahon chose to set Julius Caesar in feudal Japan, a period contemporaneous with Shakespeare’s England, and, in McMahon’s view, similarly dominated by an aristocratic ethos of military prowess and honor. The analogy goes only so far, but the verse is as resonant as ever.

Robert Zaller

Mar 22, 2014 Articles 5 minute read

'All the Way’: LBJ on Broadway

Utterly charming, utterly ruthless

Robert Schenkkan’s stage adaptation of Lyndon Johnson’s first year in office is a hugely ambitious work about a hugely overwhelming politician. But it offers only brief interior glimpses of the man behind the Texas-sized swagger.

Carol Rocamora

Mar 22, 2014 Articles 5 minute read

Forrest McClendon as Julius Caesar and Joe Guzmán as Cassius in the Lantern's controversial production of "The Tragedy of Julius Caesar." (Mark Garvin photo)

The Lantern Theater’s Japanese-‘influenced’ staging of 'Julius Caesar'

At last, lend your ears to Charles McMahon

The Philadelphia theater community has been abuzz with reactions to the Lantern Theater's recent production of Julius Caesar, which is set in feudal Japan but features no Japanese actors. Director Charles McMahon has remained silent — until now.