This page is a gateway to my accounts of non-Shakespeare productions I have seen on stage since 2009. At the bottom of this page is a link to a similar list of Shakespeare theatrical productions.
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Eric Minton
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
[For reviews of Shakespeare plays, click here.]
Concocting Rich Matter Out of Baser Stuff (American Shakespeare Center, 2010)
An Alchemist Formula That Glitters but Is Not Gold (Shakespeare Theatre Company, 2009)
All the Way
A Modern Sequel to Shakespearean Histories (Arena Stage, 2016)
Anne Page Hates Fun
A Flamingo Takes Flight (American Shakespeare Center, 2019)
Championing Second Siblings and Stuck Wives (Stratford Festival, 2014)
Billy Elliot the Musical
Electricity: It Will Light You Up, and It Can Hurt You, Too (Kennedy Center, 2012)
Black Watch
The Real Schism of War (The National Theatre of Scotland at the Shakespeare Theatre Company, 2012)
The Blind Beggar of Alexandria
Sexual Pealing (American Shakespeare Center, 2009)
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
Fitting Its Place and Time (American Shakespeare Center, 2016)
The Other American Idiot? (Broadway, 2010)
Through Bad Sound and Fury Emerges Pure Joy (Shakespeare Theatre Company, 2010)
The Cherry Orchard
Unmasking a Masterpiece (Faction of Fools, 2018)
Children of Oedipus
The Dynamics of Proximity (Dead Playwrights Repertory, 2013)
The Chosen
The Soundness of Silence (Arena Stage, 2011)
A Christmas Carol
Merry Christmas, Every One (American Shakespeare Center, 2015)
A Commedia Christmas Carol—A Present for Our Future (Faction of Fools, 2012)
The Heart of Dickens: Funny, Sad, Truly Frightening (American Shakespeare Center, 2010 and 2011)
The City of Conversation
Speaking of Politics (Lincoln Center Theater, 2014)
The Collection/The Lover
Huh? Huh. Mmnn. (Shakespeare Theatre Company, 2017)
Come Fly Away
They Did It His Way in Many Ways (Broadway, 2010)
The Conference of the Birds
A Life's Migration (The Folger, 2012)
The Country Wife
Crimes of the Heart
Bringing the Southland to a Midlands Treasure (Guthrie Theater, 2014)
The Critic/The Real Inspector Hound
Great Fun! (Shakespeare Theatre Company, Guthrie Theater, 2016)
The Custom of the Country
In Scholarly Pursuit of Sex and Fun (American Shakespeare Center, 2013)
Cyrano
The Comedy and Tragedy when Language Fails Us (The Folger, 2011)
Cyrano de Bergerac
Giant Character; Giant Talent; Giant Nose (American Shakespeare Center, 2014)
Style + Substance = Engrossing Theater (American Shakespeare Center, 2012)
Doctor Faustus
The Devil Is in the Details (Brave Spirits Theatre, 2017)
Teaching an Old Marlowe with New Tricks (American Shakespeare Center, 2014)
Conjuring Spectacle and Fun Out of Marlowe (American Shakespeare Center, 2010)
The Dog in the Manger
Beware Jealousy: In Others, It Can Drive You Crazy (Shakespeare Theatre Company, 2009)
Driving Miss Daisy
Time Passages (Ford's Theatre, 2014)
The Duchess of Malfi
Dunsinane
A Sequel to Shakespeare's Macbeth Is Much More Than it Seems (Shakespeare Theatre Company, 2015)
A Pair Makes for a Great Play (American Shakespeare Center, 2014)
Epicene, or the Silent Woman
Second Banana Slips on His Own Cleverness (American Shakespeare Center, 2014)
Equivocation
Shakespeare and the Art of Lying (Oregon Shakespeare Festival/Arena Stage, 2011)
Every Man in His Humour
Watching the Other Side of Shakespeare (American Shakespeare Center, 2015)
Bess in a Mess (American Shakespeare Center, 2010)
Fela!
The Front Page
Press-sure Cooker (Broadhurst Theatre, New York City, 2017)
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
He Hit Bottom, Now Dow Soars as Psuedolus (Shakespeare Theatre Company, 2013)
The Gaming Table (adapted from The Basset Table)
Gambling at Cards, with Love, in Life, and on Stage (The Folger, 2012)
The Gospel at Colonus
A Sermon from the Book of Oedipus (WSC Avant Bard, 2018)
The Government Inspector
A Comedy of Corruption (Shakespeare Theatre Company, 2012)
The Great One-Man Commedia Epic
Three Out of Four Will Get You 12 or More (Faction of Fools Theatre Company, 2014)
The Great Society
A Shakespearean Tragedy Touches Us All (Arena Stage, 2018)
Grounded
Dramatic License Clouds of Truths (Olney Theatre Center, 2015)
Making a Delivery Express to the Heart (Westside Theatre Downstairs, New York, 2014)
The Heir Apparent
Hughie
A Long Day's Journey into Night (Goodman Theatre/BAM 2015)
An Ideal Husband
The Ideology of a Marriage (Shakespeare Theatre Company, 2011)
The Importance of Being Earnest
Casting in Earnest (Hudson Warehouse, 2014)
Keeping Clear of the Wilde Side of Life (Shakespeare Theatre Company, 2014)
The Importance of No Fourth, Third, or Second Wall (American Shakespeare Center, 2011)
The Importance of Being Earnest—Really (Roundabout Theatre, 2011)
Shakespeare Meets Arrested Development (American Shakespeare Center, 2020)
Incest Rep Flips Horror with Humor (Brave Spirits Theatre, 2017)
King Charles III
A Shakespearean Reach (Shakespeare Theatre Company, 2017)
Kiss Me, Kate
Breathtaking Musical and a Good Shrew, Too (Shakespeare Theatre Company, 2015)
The Knight of the Burning Pestle
A Play within a Play within a Play (American Shakespeare Center, 2010)
Indescribable (Faction of Fools, 2013)
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
The Liar
A Triumph of Make Believe (Shakespeare Theatre Company, 2010)
The Lion in Winter
The Common Roar (4615 Theatre Company, 2017)
In a Play of Lions, Watch Out For the Domestic Shorthair (American Shakespeare Center, 2012)
Look about You
Stretching Incredulity beyond Understanding (American Shakespeare Center, 2011)
Love for Love
A Valentine (American Shakespeare Center, 2016)
The Lover/The Collection
Huh? Huh. Mmnn. (Shakespeare Theatre Company, 2017)
Art and Burlesque, Past, Present, and Future (American Shakespeare Center, 2012)
The Maid's Tragedy
He Reigns (Brave Spirits, 2016)
A Maid's Unmaking of a Man, A Moment Made for Live Theater (American Shakespeare Center, 2014)
The Malcontent
A Thriller Where Redemption Trumps Revenge (American Shakespeare Center, 2011)
Man in a Case
Baryshnikov and the Poetry of Motion (Big Dance Theater/Shakespeare Theatre Company, 2013)
Man of La Mancha
It's All Merely Delusional (Shakespeare Theatre Company, 2015)
Mary Stuart
The Queen of Hearts (Folger Theatre, 2015)
Queen vs. Queen: A Study in Politics and Leadership (Washington Shakespeare Company, 2010)
The Metromaniacs
The Play's Good Times Are All in Its Rhymes (Shakespeare Theatre Company, 2015)
The Miser
Commedia Dell'Arte an Easy Fit for Molière (Faction of Fools, 2016)
Mother Bombie
The Play Bombs, but the Actors Kill (American Shakespeare Center, 2015)
Mother Courage and Her Children
What War Means to a Mother's Eyes (Stratford Festival, 2014)
Mrs. Warren's Profession
Finding Fog When Looking for Truth (Shakespeare Theatre Company, 2010)
Stepping through Orwell to Our World (Headlong, Shakespeare Theatre Company, 2016)
No Spring Chicken
Life Begins at 40 (NextStop Theatre Company, 2015)
A Recollection of Old Times (Shakespeare Theatre Company, 2011)
Orestes
Riddle Me This: 8 Actors in 8 Parts With Doubling (Folger Theatre, 2010)
The Originalist
Justice Scalia: A Shakespearean Monster (Arena Stage, 2015)
Our Town
A Timeless Style Creates a Timeless Feeling (Ford's Theatre, 2013)
Such Starstuff As Dreams Are Made On (American Shakespeare Center, 2017)
Phedre
Greek Soap, Modern Theater: A Tragic Experience (National Theatre, 2009)
Philaster, or Love Lies a-Bleeding
Out of Archetypes Rises a Splendid Play (American Shakespeare Center, 2012)
Private Lives
A Slice of Lives (Shakespeare Theatre Company, 2014)
The Real Inspector Hound/The Critic
Great Fun! (Shakespeare Theatre Company, Guthrie Theater, 2016)
Red Velvet
Peering Through a Mirror at Racism in Theater (Tricycle Theatre/St. Ann's Warehouse, 2014)
The Rehearsal
Special Affects (American Shakespeare Center, 2009)
The Revenger's Tragedy
A Partaker's Comedy (American Shakespeare Company, 2009)
The Robben Island Bible
Antiapartheid Heroes Emerge Through Reading Shakespeare (The Folger, 2013)
The Roman Actor
Two-Tone Theater and One Great Speech (American Shakespeare Center, 2010)
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Characters in Search of Their Play (American Shakespeare Center, 2018)
It's What the Actors Do Best (Folger Theatre, 2015)
And We Are Merely Players (The Acting Company, Guthrie Theater, 2014)
On Guard for Avant Garde (American Shakespeare Center, 2009)
The Rover
This Rover Explores Humanity's Landscape (American Shakespeare Center, 2015)
Taking Theater to the Dimension of Our Selves (Bedlam, 2014)
Salomé
A Spark of Revolution in a Theatrical Baptism (Shakespeare Theatre Company, 2015)
The Santaland Diaries
A Blunt-Speaking Elf (American Shakespeare Center, 2010)
The School for Lies
A Schooling in Truth (Shakespeare Theatre Company, 2017)
The School for Scandal
Theater Exponential (American Shakespeare Center, 2017)
The Sea Voyage
In Good Company (American Shakespeare Center, 2016)
The 2nd Book of Ruth
Or, the Rabbi, the Blonde, and Their God (The Laboratory Theater of Florida, 2014)
The Second Shepherds' Play
The Spirit of Christmas Past (Folger Theatre, 2016)
The Select (The Sun Also Rises)
The Novelization of Great Theater (Elevator Repair Service, Shakespeare Theatre Company, 2017)
Sense and Sensibility
Emotions in Motion (The Folger Theatre, 2016)
The Servant of Two Masters
Lifting Laughter to the Level of High Art (American Shakespeare Center, 2014)
Feature-Length Animation with Real Actors (Shakespeare Theatre Company, 2012)
Sex with Strangers
The Ink Never Dries on the Web (Signature Theatre, 2014)
Shakespeare's Rebel
Shakespeare's Sister
Potential Wanting (American Shakespeare Center, 2017)
She Stoops to Conquer
Cast Conquers with Confusion (American Shakespeare Center, 2013)
The Shoemaker's Holiday
All Decked Out and Dekker, Too (Baltimore Shakespeare Factory, 2016)
16 Winters, or The Bear's Tale
Reflecting on Shakespeare In a House of Mirrors (American Shakespeare Center, 2019)
Something Rotten!
So Freakin' Awesome (Broadway, 2016)
Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark
Whine and Cheese: Spider-Man's Muddled Web (Broadway, 2010)
Strange Interlude
A Marathon of a Play Leaving Us Breathless in the Presentation (Shakespeare Theatre Company, 2012)
Sunset Boulevard
Thirsting for That Old Lloyd Webber Talent (Signature Theatre, 2011)
Sylvia
Rrrrr-Wroof! Wroof! Rrr-Wroof! Errooo-Wroof! (NextStop Theatre, 2014)
The Epoch of Belief and Incredulity (Synetic Theater, 2015)
Tamburlaine the Great
Who Had It, Who Lost It, and Who Won (American Shakespeare Center, 2011)
Tartuffe
Discomforting Comedy, Hypnotic Theater (Shakespeare Theatre Company, 2015)
texts&beheadings/ElizabethR
Four Queens Make a Winning Hand (Compagnia de' Colombari/Folger Theatre, 2015)
Time Stands Still
The Drama of War beyond the Combat (Studio Theatre, 2012)
'Tis Pity She's a Whore
Incest Rep Flips Horror with Humor (Brave Spirits Theatre, 2017)
A Play with No Whores, and Less Pity (American Shakespeare Center, 2012)
A Trick to Catch the Old One
Tricks to Catch the New Ones with an Old One (American Shakespeare Center, 2011)
The Trojan Women
The Women of Troy Speak Us Home (Taffety Punk, 2017)
The 12 Dates of Christmas
The Play beyond the Playwright (American Shakespeare Center, 2015)
One Woman's Epiphany on Love and Romance (American Shakespeare Center, 2010 and 2011)
Hungarian Director Has Aussie Stars Laughing Uncle (Sydney Theatre Company, 2011)
Blinded By the Dark (Shakespeare Theatre Company, 2019)
Traitor or Hero? Wallenstein and Coriolanus (Shakespeare Theatre Company, 2013)
War Horse
A Horse! A Horse! And Something Much More (National Theatre/Lincoln Center, 2012)
Watch on the Rhine
A Thriller at Every Turn (Arena Stage, 2017)
The Way of the World (adaption)
Money Talks (Folger Theatre, 2018)
West Side Story
Someday, Somewhere (Signature Theatre, 2015)
The White Devil
A Scintillating Discovery (American Shakespeare Center, 2015)
Wild Oats
A Star Vehicle (American Shakespeare Center, 2010)
Women Beware Women
The Real Lamentable Tragedy (American Shakespeare Center, 2016)
Acting the Fine Line of Absurdity (Constellation Theatre Company, 2010)
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