A “Good Night” for TV: Clooney and company bring Murrow play to CNN
[Full article published in Quill Magazine June 3, 2025.] On June 7, CNN will be broadcasting, live from Broadway, “Good Night, and Good Luck,” a play written by and starring […]
Pain, pathos, and humanity served up as gentle gestures in The Counter
The CounterFeaturing Anthony Edwards, Susanna Flood, and Amy WarrenRoundabout Theatre Company | Laura PelsSeptember 20, 2024 – November 17, 2024production site Two lonely people meet in a public community space — […]
THE BAND’S VISIT: A conversation on creating the Tony-winning musical
[Full article published in Dramatics on-line and appeared in the August/September 2018 print issue of Dramatics.] ERAN KOLIRIN’S 2007 film, The Band’s Visit, is set in the deeply political geography of rural […]
In Broadway’s Gentlest Musical, Hope Strikes Up the “Band”
[Original published in The Clyde Fitch Report, November 12, 2017.] The wonder holds in The Band’s Visit, the musical dreamscape now on Broadway less than a year after an Off-Broadway unveiling that opened to rapturous reviews. […]
Son to Forgive His Betraying Mother? Ask “The Treasurer”
[Original published in The Clyde Fitch Report, September 27, 2017.] What happens to a 13-year-old boy when his mother leaves the family for another life? “She left and poof, there […]
review: tribes
Tribes by Nina Raine Directed by David Cromer Featuring Mare Winningham, Jeff Perry, Will Brill, Russell Harvard Barrow Street Theatre, 27 Barrow Street Street March 6, 2012 — September 2, […]
one-on-one: david cromer and michael halberstam
One-on-One: David Cromer and Michael Halberstam Presented by the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation Playwrights Horizons’ Peter Jay Sharp Theatre, 416 West 42nd Street May 7, 2011, 10:15am-noon Two old […]
review: the house of blue leaves
The House of Blue Leaves By John Guare Directed by David Cromer Featuring Ben Stiller, Edie Falco, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Alison Pill Walter Kerr Theatre, 219 West 48th Street production […]
review: our town
Our Town By Thornton Wilder Directed by David Cromer Starring David Cromer (as Stage Manager) and others Barrow Street Theatre, 27 Barrow Street (7th Avenue South of Christopher Street) production web […]
review: come back little sheba
[originally published: http://aislesay.com/CHI-SHEBA.html] COME BACK LITTLE SHEBA by William Inge Directed by David Cromer Shattered Globe Theatre at Victory Gardens Greenhouse Theatre 2257 N. Lincoln Avenue / (773) 871-3000 http://www.shatteredglobe.org Through October 21, 2006 Reviewed by Martha Wade Steketee September 24, 2006 It is 1950 in Midwestern America. Do we know where our children are? Shattered Globe Theatre‘s stunning production of William Inge‘s […]
urban excavations 