"The Pink Bus" is officially available — just in time for the topsiest-turviest election season imaginable. Check it out on Amazon or on the Lethe Press website. Here's what nice people who have already read it are saying:  "The wickedly smart

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Still chugging along on Broadway from last season is "An American in Paris," which lost the Best Musical prize to "Fun Home," but picked up four technical Tonys. It is expected to play at the Palace Theater at least until January 2017. And still

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Forget how many times you've seen or read Tennessee Williams' 1947 "A Streetcar Named Desire": Benedict Andrews' brilliant new production at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn makes you feel as if this classic play was written just yesterday. Read my review at NJ.com

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Rampant hysteria. False accusations. A moral leadership vacuum. Sounds like your average week on the Presidential campaign trail, but it's also the story of Arthur Miller's 1953 play  "The Crucible," now being revived on Broadway, in a starry revival featuring recent Oscar

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Who will win the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for fiction? The front-runner “Fates and Furies” by Lauren Groff? The sleeper contender “The Turner House” by Angela Flournoy? An out-of-left-field pick like “The Infernal” by Mark Doten? And what about the non-fiction and

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Saw the new revival of Arthur Miller's “The Crucible” on Broadway last night. Reviews are under embargo until later this week, so for now I’m contemplating the eternal question: Why isn’t Ben Whishaw a household name? His speciality seems to be

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I reviewed the new Steve Martin-Edie Brickell musical "Bright Star", for NJ.com — it features a wonderful bluegrass and country score and a less wonderful story about a literary journal editor recounting the tragic events of her youth. Read my full review here. 

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