According to Deborah Zoe Laufer, being a playwright is about staring into the sun. And by that I mean asking life’s biggest questions and not just expecting, but knowing that you won’t come out with any definites. Laufer has become a crucial voice in …Read more

In Informed Consent, playwright Deborah Zoe Laufer asks us to hold up religion and myth against science as she tackles one of the life’s largest enduring dilemmas: are there dangers in the relentless pursuit of knowledge? To complement months of rese …Read more

In Butcher Holler Here We Come, now on stage at The Tank, writer Casey Wimpee and director Leah Bonvissuto have teamed up to create an emotionally dark yet stunning portrait of humanity in crisis. It seems kismet that the play found its way to the Ta …Read more

To see a work by the absurdist playwright Samuel Beckett means checking certain aspects of common logic at the door, and letting the master throw you head first into a universe of his own imagining — one that is often bleak but always witty, where m …Read more

Michael Zegen has found himself in the heart of millennial territory. From Girls and Rescue Me to Frances Ha and Adventureland, the talented young actor has crafted an impressive career spanning film, television and the stage, playing roles in projec …Read more

  More than a year after his death, legendary playwright, poet, and activist Amiri Baraka is proving that he still has the ability to unite and educate through the arts. To envision Most Dangerous Man in America (W.E.B. Du Bois), Baraka’s final …Read more

Feared and revered by high school students and English majors, William Faulkner is easily one of the most brilliant — and one of the most challenging — Titans of American literature. It’s no surprise then, to find out that he was on the radar of El …Read more

The notion of dramatizing the story of a white kid from the suburbs turned failed NYU film student, living in a huge Manhattan apartment on his father’s dime hits me at gut level as the kind of eye rolling, self-aggrandizing “hipster” punchline that …Read more

When the Signature Theatre commissioned a work from legendary South African playwright Athold Fugard, he retraced his steps back into an unfinished piece on Nukain Mabuza, a relatively unknown outsider artist, also South African, in order to create T …Read more

Once, when I tried to argue that reality and game show TV is at an all time, depraved high, my father laughingly countered with Queen for a Day, a show that ran in the 1950s and ’60s when he was a kid, featuring female contestants who competed with o …Read more