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 wellmeaning efforts to bring it to a new wider TV audience to consider todays political theater particularly in the flourishing form of oneperson 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 whats 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. show more