All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. And when families become very unhappy, they imprison each other inside manmade bomb shelters. Or so Tolstoy would have elaborated, had he seen this play. In Safe Hous …Read more

Sophie McIntosh is the playwright behind benevolent at IATI Theater, a play set in 1917 that follows four young women living in a strict Manhattan reformatory called the Inwood Benevolent Home, where they turgidly wash stains out of soiled laundry on …Read more

          In Sophie McIntosh’s compelling new play Benevolent, playing through September 12th at the IATI theater, there are a lot of ways women can get in trouble: poverty, prostitution, pregnancy and premarital sex, to name a few. The four young wo …Read more

What if there were no men in the world? Feminist authors have been exploring that concept for over a century, from Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland in 1915 to Joanna Russ’s 1975 speculative fantasy The Female Man. (My ex-girlfriend also used to pos …Read more

  What’s more destructive to the human race – the threat of AI, or the reality of marriage? On the one hand, artificial intelligence seems fairly close to replacing the charmingly antiquated notion of “thinking for ourselves.” But marriage has been i …Read more

     Before I review this play, I just want to say that the Democratic Socialists of America are totally valid, I really hear what they’re saying, I appreciate their perspective, and the work they do in our community is so, so important.  I don’ …Read more

An aging man and woman, both alone in the world, meet in a nursing home and strike up a friendship over a series of games of gin. It might seem like the premise for a sentimental theatrical valentine about how two elderly people, who have been forgot …Read more

Imagine an essay on camp and performance disguised as a play. No, don’t imagine that – the play is too entertaining. Imagine instead a theatrical commentary on camp, with two drag performers enacting numerous roles as observers and actors. No, don’t …Read more

Victoria Lynne Barclay’s Camping is about an emotional wilderness rather than a literal one. Across 25 years, two women remain caught in a cycle of love, denial, and recrimination, returning again and again to a childhood tent that somehow proves spa …Read more

On Monday, June 22nd, an audience of people showed up at 11:00am at the Circle in the Square Theater at 50th St. They, and I, were planning to sit there for twelve hours until past 11:00 at night in order to watch five plays by the actor and playwrig …Read more