Arthur Miller

Día de los Muertos: What’s the Deal with All Those Skulls?

Children's Hour

The Alley's Crucible gets more than it deserves, the audience less.

Press Picks

The Alley's Crucible gets more than it deserves, the audience less.

Press Picks

The Alley's Crucible gets more than it deserves, the audience less.

Shards of Ideas

With Broken Glass, Arthur Miller reaches for more than he can hold

That Old Black Magic

After 40 years, The Crucible's melodrama still works its spell

Female Trouble

Jar the Floor takes a hard look at the ties that bind, and strangle, mothers and daughters

The Unchanging Face of Milby

For more than 70 years, Milby High School has educated working class kids from the East End. In the early 1960s, I was one of them. I recently went back to Milby to see not what had changed, but what, if anything, remained.

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For more than 70 years, Milby High School has educated working class kids from the East End. In the early 1960s, I was one of them. I recently went back to Milby to see not what had changed, but what, if anything, remained.

A Death to Remember

For more than 70 years, Milby High School has educated working class kids from the East End. In the early 1960s, I was one of them. I recently went back to Milby to see not what had changed, but what, if anything, remained.

Best Theater Season

Alley Theatre

Joe Goode Performance Group

Puppeteer Basil Twist worked with the avant-garde troupe’s namesake and choreographer to create Wonderboy

Art Imitates Life Imitating Art in Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York

The World Is a Stage

Name Game

Peach Biscuit, a.k.a. Punkin' from Pluto, speaks her words

Not so Bad: "Horton Hears a Who!

After the unspeakable Grinch, Horton is a surprisingly strong Seuss adaptation

Season's Greetings

With summer almost over, the theater scene's heating up

Rose in Bloom

The daughter of a hippie recluse grows to see the world her own way

Elegant Elegy

The Alley spins new life into Arthur Miller's 50-year-old morality tale

Dancing Queen

The Martha Graham Dance Company defines modern movement

Letters

The Martha Graham Dance Company defines modern movement

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

The Martha Graham Dance Company defines modern movement

After the Lecturing

Simple moments in Arthur Miller's drama will move you

Playbill

Simple moments in Arthur Miller's drama will move you

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Simple moments in Arthur Miller's drama will move you

Miller's Crossing

Arthur Miller's daughter Rebecca comes into her own with Personal Velocity

Scripted Responses

Speaking in the clichés of language-study tapes, the characters in The Danube mourn the loss of life's poetry

God Only Knows

Dismembered bodies. Gold booty and an ex-con's grudge. A trial rips into the mysteries of the disappearance of atheist icon Madalyn Murray O'Hair.

Where Angels Fear to Tread

When Kilgore College staged a gay play, administrators learned there were limits to a liberal education in East Texas

Back to the Beat

Source pays homage to Kerouac and company

Drowning Out The Bridge

Alley sets and sounds stifle Miller's spare play

Write Soon and Tell All

Pauline Oliveros moved to San Francisco. She played avant-garde accordion. She came out as a lesbian. She kept in touch with her mom.

Meat and Potatoes

Frank's Chop House stands firmly in the middle of the road.

Play Ball! Baseball Songs Even A Non-Sports Fan Can Love

​Sports aren't really She Said's thing, though she does like to watch games where there's a lot at stake emotionally (Super Bowl XLIV) and she nearly always roots for the underdog. Mostly, she really enjoys the speed of college basketball, and the nostalgia of baseball. She Said's dad is by no mea ... More >>

Capsule Stage Reviews: Bus Stop, Gee's Bend, Triple Focus, Weekend with Pablo Picasso

​Sports aren't really She Said's thing, though she does like to watch games where there's a lot at stake emotionally (Super Bowl XLIV) and she nearly always roots for the underdog. Mostly, she really enjoys the speed of college basketball, and the nostalgia of baseball. She Said's dad is by no mea ... More >>

August: Osage County

​Sports aren't really She Said's thing, though she does like to watch games where there's a lot at stake emotionally (Super Bowl XLIV) and she nearly always roots for the underdog. Mostly, she really enjoys the speed of college basketball, and the nostalgia of baseball. She Said's dad is by no mea ... More >>

Come Back, Little Sheba

​Sports aren't really She Said's thing, though she does like to watch games where there's a lot at stake emotionally (Super Bowl XLIV) and she nearly always roots for the underdog. Mostly, she really enjoys the speed of college basketball, and the nostalgia of baseball. She Said's dad is by no mea ... More >>

Songs About A Blonde: Happy Birthday Marilyn Monroe

​Marilyn Monroe is one of the first of many women that will completely floor any red-blooded man, gay or straight, at first glance. There is simply no way that those eyes, that smile, that shock of blonde hair, and that figure can leave you feeling devoid of emotion. Girls want to be her, and ... More >>

Capsule Stage Reviews: Big Range Dance Festival, Death of a Salesman, It's Only Life, The Taming of the Shrew,

​Marilyn Monroe is one of the first of many women that will completely floor any red-blooded man, gay or straight, at first glance. There is simply no way that those eyes, that smile, that shock of blonde hair, and that figure can leave you feeling devoid of emotion. Girls want to be her, and ... More >>