Culture Watch

A Play About Open Marriage and Sex Galore in Quiet Old 1933 Great Britain

by Bruce Chadwick

"Unfaithfully Yours" is a delightful play plucked from the files of British playwright Miles Malleson and brought it to life after all these years – skimpy towels and all.

1950s Racial Turmoil in Pittsburgh Sizzles in "Fences"

by Bruce Chadwick

"Fences" is a deep and rich look at life and race in Pittsburgh, and America, in the '50s. It's a home run of a play about a guy who continually struck out once the game on the field was over.

The Decline of the American Empire – And Hollywood’s

by Dennis Broe

The reason the old Hollywood spectaculars declined.

New York’s 9/11 Memorial and Museum Has Become a Monument to Sadness and Bravery

by Bruce Chadwick

The museum is a little more than two years old and has been a huge success with nearly seven million visitors from all over the U.S. and 175 foreign countries.

Guilty or Innocent? Martin Luther on Trial on Times Square

by Bruce Chadwick

Somewhere between heaven, hell and Times Square, they are putting Martin Luther, the founder of the Lutheran Church in the early 1500s, on trial for blasphemy with eternal damnation the punishment if the truculent monk is found guilty.

Satire Is Changing. Have You Noticed?

by Matt Fotis

Satire no longer uses exaggeration. Now satirists just repeat what politicians actually say and people laugh!

London, 1843: A Merry Christmas and a Stingy Ebenezer Scrooge

by Bruce Chadwick

This latest version of the play is terrific and even better than the last.

A Christmas in Wales Is Like Christmas Anywhere in America

by Bruce Chadwick

We have a number of wonderful Christmas plays and movies to keep us warm during the holidays. Poet Dylan Thomas’s "A Child’s Christmas in Wales" usually does not find its place on that list and it should.

Daddy Long Legs

by Bruce Chadwick

Jerusha Abbott is an orphan at the John Grier asylum in New York in the early 1900s in this play about a wealthy benefactor who wants to pay for her entire college education.

A Happy Nod to the Queen of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s

by Bruce Chadwick

Her name was Zora Neale Hurston and she was one of the most talented African American writers in this country’s history.

The Election of 493 B.C.: Make Rome Great Again

by Bruce Chadwick

If you like Shakespeare, see this play. If you like politics, see this play. If you enjoy history, see this play.

Remembering Apartheid in South Africa with a Chill

by Bruce Chadwick

"Master Harold and the Boys" is a dramatic masterpiece, a splendid piece of theater that does what theater has always been meant to do – scorch your emotions.

The Never Ending Story of Lee Harvey Oswald

by Bruce Chadwick

In a new play Oswald's mama is blamed for many of his problems. The play winks at conspiracy theories, but says flat out that Oswald shot the president.

Remember the Movie "Holiday Inn"? Now It's a Play.

by Bruce Chadwick

Go back in time to post-war Connecticut, book your rooms early and get yourself to "Holiday Inn" for a holiday of fun.

Why Audiences Must See Nate Parker’s "Birth of a Nation," Despite the Controversy

by Alyssa Sepinwall

Audiences should see "Birth" – and then debate its strengths and weaknesses. Otherwise, we are unlikely to get better films on slavery.

Donald Trump, Richard III and Other Lazy Day Comparisons

by Bruce Chadwick

What we can learn from a play about an aggrandizing and ruthless king set in a modern context.

The Underground Railroad Game: Try Monopoly Instead

by Bruce Chadwick

If he saw this Civil War play, General Lee would have fallen off his horse Traveler and General Grant would have really started drinking.

Texans Yearning for Home in the Roaring Twenties

by Bruce Chadwick

"Roads to Home" is a gauzy and loving play about life in Texas, in America, in the 1920s.

The Sexual Problems that Confront the Catholic Church

by Bruce Chadwick

How one playwright has tried to illuminate an issue that's bedeviled the church.

The News Has You Depressed? Go See a Marx Brothers Movie.

by Bruce Chadwick

The Marx Brothers have not only charmed people in America, but all over the world.