The Rational Feast

New York, Day Ten:  "Something Rotten" and "The Legend of Georgia McBride" There are musicals designed to be nothing ...

New York, Day Nine:  "Perfect Arrangement"  Nostalgia is rampant in America, especially on Fox News, which seems regularly to b...

New York, Day Eight:  "Clever Little Lies"  The common wisdom on extramarital affairs (at least in popular culture, if not in a...

New York, Day Seven: "The Christians" and "Hand to God" This is one of those occasions when I wish I wasn’t seeing 15...

New York, Day Six: "Love & Money" and "The King & I" What a curse wealth is. Though vast numbers across the g...

New York, Day Five: "The Flick" This winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama is serious theatre.  Not because it addresses ...

New York, Day Four: "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" Let me count the ways I fell in love with this incredib...

New York, Day Three:  "Fun Home" and "An American in Paris" Though persecution against LGBT people is still far too ...

New York, Day Two:   “Hamilton”   I think it’s fairly safe to say there has never been a musical quite like  Hamilton , now (and for the...

New York, Day One: "The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey" As one might expect from the title, the primary character in t...

Lists such as these are as much a holiday staple as gingerbread, mistletoe and cable marathons of "It's a Wonderful Life." T...

"Too Much Sun" Too much whining. "The Realistic Joneses" There’s a point in this 90-minu...