Tanya Barfield’s Bright Half Life at Women’s Project Theater is an ode to the sacrifices we make for love. The play shows us distilled flashes of one couple’s long term relationship, from their initial butterflies to eventual child rearing, divorce, …Read more

John Dirrigl’s heartwrenching play The Bauer Sisters unfolds in one afternoon on Rosie’s farm in Connecticut: it is 1986, and the women of the local German American club have gathered to prepare and enjoy lunch together. The women’s dynamic friendshi …Read more

Beau Willimon, author of sharp political dramas “Farragut North” and “House of Cards”, experiments with a different kind of politics in “Breathing Time”.  He presents us with an anonymous office somewhere in the Financial District, shared by a number …Read more

One summer when I worked at an arts school, a woman named Mary Susan Slawter would call the admin office and leave longwinded voicemails, sometimes three or more in a row, always between the hours of midnight and 2am.  She puzzled my colleagues and m …Read more

Alan Sillitoe’s 1959 short story “The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner” focuses on Colin Smith, a working class young man who finds himself in a prison school (populated by other working class young men) after getting caught for petty theft.  B …Read more