Play By Play Theater Essays & Reviews, 1993-2002 [Hardcover]

PLAY BY PLAY ()This collection begins with a brave and piercing appraisal of the state of current theater criticism, in a section Kalb characteristically calls Critical Mess. He goes on to revisit the work of Samuel Beckett, as performed in well-meaning efforts to bring it to a new, wider (TV) audience; to consider today's political theater, particularly in the flourishing form of one-person shows; to explore the theatrical landscape of a reunited Germany, where the Berliner Ensemble is no longer a showcase for the East, and finally to cover what's going on back home in New York  everything from The Lion King and Dame Edna to plays of David Mamet and Arthur Miller (new and old) and to the latest trends in the Broadway musical.