Adam Kirsch

Dead Babies, Geraldo and New Orleans

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Harvard theater comes in a few familiar flavors. There's the ambitious production of a classic, like the Mainstage "Three Sisters"

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One day, if it has not happened already, some Ph.D. candidate will write a dissertation on the effect of poetry

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T his is the way the year began--with what, by any standard, qualifies as a loud theatrical bang. No sooner

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Now that it has become as common for a serious reader to read literary biographies as actual novels, is only

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Back in November 1994, the Republican takeover of Congress was heralded as the start of a new era. After half

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The fourth production of the Dunster House Opera is also, by far, its most ambitious. In past years, the Opera's

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When it premiered in France in the 1950s, Jean Genet's The Maids must have been a shock. The play, based

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If ever there was a monument to the Western Canon, Paine Hall is it. High above the audience, in proud

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In 1995, it would probably be impossible to write a musical about gang warfare, racism, police brutality, and attempted rape.

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Don't let the title fool you. "Fat Men in Skirts" conjures up a vision of the worst of current theatrical