At a time when so many curmudgeons complain that every story has already been told on the stage and screen, Birthright remains a surprisingly untapped subject. A group of horny, wealthy adolescents partying their way through an exotic foreign locale? WHERE’S MY TICKET?!
If you’re even remotely tapped into the theatre world, then you’ve already read all the much-deserved praise regarding Lila Neugebauer’s direction of the true-ensemble in Pulitzer Prize finalist Sarah DeLappe’s The Wolves, currently winding down its third (3rd!) production in New York City, this time at Lincoln Center’s off-Broadway Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater. As such, hopefully you won’t fault me for not repeating it here.
Theatres around the world should produce Jocelyn Bioh’s School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play.
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Dirtying up a beloved childhood icon is one of the most reliable comedic formulas available to comic artists; it also tends to be a reliable formula to get sued.
Continue reading “WHO’S HOLIDAY! (Westside Theatre): How the Grinch Stole Seuss!”
Anna Ziegler earned the privilege of two prominent off-Broadway theatre companies simultaneously staging a duo of her new plays this winter.
Continue reading “Anna Ziegler’s Impressive Double-Edged Sword”
People, Places & Things will go down as one of this theatre season’s very best shows.
Continue reading “PEOPLE, PLACES & THINGS: A Transatlantic Journey (To Another Website)”
Magic’s having a theatrical moment.
Continue reading “AT THE ILLUSIONIST’S TABLE (The McKittrick Hotel): Dinner Magic”
The Keen Company’s revival of Steven Dietz’s Lonely Planet plays like a thematic mashup between Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. They explore the complexly nuanced relationships between storytelling, companionship, and dealing with life’s hard truths.
Since I attended the final performance of the Public Theater’s production of Julia Cho’s Office Hour, I figured it wouldn’t behoove me to write about it, even though I think it’s one of the most vital plays of the season.
I’ve long differentiated actors from performers.
Write All Nite 