Cate Blanchett and Isabelle Huppert Star in a 'Superb Production' of Genet's The Maids

Most contemporary plays, or at least the ones that make it to New York's big stages, can be categorized as Realism Lite: recognizable people doing recognizable things, perhaps with a powder coat of stylization for sheen. Actual absurdism, the hope of the 1960s, is dead; the theater today aspires to ... More