Walking into the Wilma Theater's transformed auditorium, draped in white fabric with cardboard chandeliers hanging from the ceiling, all drawn aside and covered in artificial cobwebs, it's impossible not to feel completely immersed in the world of Peter Shaffer's Amadeus, thanks equally to set designer Robert Pyzocha, costume designer Janus Stefanowicz, and lighting designer Jerold R. Forsyth. Soon enough, you'll discover that it's intentional: you feel a part of the play because you are.......

Roald Dahl is, hands-down, one of my favorite writers. And not just because he wrote Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, either. Dahl wrote a number of works for grown-ups, too. (His short story, "Lamb to the Slaughter," was reworked for an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents... and remains one of my favorite short stories ever.) He managed to achieve something many authors aspire to but few attain: the ability to write for the ages......

The premise is simple and nothing new: a man, taken into custody for reasons he's not aware of. He is taken to a secret jail and interrogated, tortured even, by two police officers of a totalitarian state that seems like it could be Soviet but might not be. When he won't—can't?—speak, his only living brother, "special" in all the politically correct ways of speaking, is questioned too, used to bait the man who still......