Charles McNulty, Theater Critic
Charles McNulty is the theater critic of the Los Angeles Times. A former Village Voice theater critic and editor, he received his doctorate in dramaturgy and dramatic criticism from the Yale School of Drama. He has taught at Yale, the New School, NYU, the CUNY Graduate Center and UCLA, and got his theatrical start as a literary intern at the New York Public Theater in the days of Joseph Papp. He was the chairman of the Pulitzer drama jury in 2010. He received the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism for the theater year 2009-2010 for his reviews and essays published in the Los Angeles Times and was awarded top prize for feature writing from the Society for Features Journalism in 2011.
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When it comes to hoarding, the Collyer brothers have nothing on Geoff Sobelle, who has created a performance piece on the compulsion to preserve the flotsam and jetsam of the past.
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One day a comprehensive literary biography of Tennessee Williams will be written that won’t resemble a psychiatric case study.
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The kitsch factor was high, but “Hair” proved to be a congenial choice for the Hollywood Bowl, where this counterculture classic from the late 1960s breezed in for three performances this past weekend on a cloud of marijuana smoke.
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Jordan Harrison explores the fraught subject of memory from a variety of fascinating angles in ‘Marjorie Prime’ at the Mark Taper Forum. Ultimately, it’s more intriguing than dramatically satisfying.
