Houman Barekat

“The attempt fails dismally, despite the admirable efforts of the leading man Lewis Kidd.”

“Everything good about Icke’s “Romeo and Juliet” is bound up in sincerity and sentiment.”

“In a very fine revival of 'All My Sons' — directed by Ivo van Hove and running at Wyndham'”

“It is an exercise in meta-kitsch, and, on those terms, it succeeds.”

“This is not the kind of play that brandishes a singular sharp point; it is the kind that swaddles you in innumerable impressions.”

“For all the fine talk of separating the art from the artist, it’s hard to escape the discomforting conclusion that Dahl was so good at writing about hatefulness and cruelty precisely because he was, in some respects, a hateful and cruel man.”

“But “Starlight Express” is more theme park than theater.”

“The real spectacle here is that of a franchise eating itself.”