Can you imagine coming face to face with your idol? How would you act? Could you even form the words to speak? In Margot Connolly’s production of Keys, one lucky young lady has that very experience when she becomes immersed in the world of her hero, …Read more
A woman’s life is defined by her relationships with two men in John & Jen the “twist” being that they are not relationships of a romantic nature, but instead with her brother, and son. When we first meet Jen (Kate Baldwin) in 1952 she is twelve y …Read more
With so many plays in the theatrical canon, it is a sad inevitability that some well-written and worthy plays will get pushed to the sidelines by others. The Peccadillo Theater Company is dedicated to producing American plays that the public has perh …Read more
Six gimmick laden shorts make for one tedious evening. Lives of the Saints, the zany brainchild of theater maven David Ives, attests that clever-for-clever’s-sake theater can undo even the most skilled of storytellers. Ingeniously directed by John Ra …Read more
Chiara Atik, the playwright of Ensemble Studio Theatre’s newest comedy Five Times in One Night, sat down with us to discuss her writing process, her comedy influences, and the best (and worst) relationship advice she’s ever heard. Her new play is a …Read more
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
Entertainment Weekly reported this week that everybody’s favorite absorbent, porous and yellow invertebrate, SpongeBob SquarePants, may someday come to Broadway. At its annual “upfront” presentation of its TV offerings, Nickelodeon announced that the …Read more
Five Times in One Night, Chiara Atik’s sweet and funny new play now showing at Ensemble Studio Theatre, is a sharp, witty meditation on relationships through time. Atik begins in the future right after a nuclear holocaust: a man and a woman find one …Read more
Walking in on Harry Feiner’s set for Rocket to the Moon, Clifford Odets’ rarely performed 1938 play now receiving a revival at the Theatre at St. Clements, is almost like walking into the Kansas of The Wizard of Oz. True, the rural Kansas of that fil …Read more
In the stage directions for Big Love (at Signature Theatre) playwright Charles Mee remarks that the setting of the play is “more an installation than a set.” It may be right to view the entire play with that note in mind — to imagine the script as a …Read more