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

It had been raining off and on for several days. The air was thick and the sky slightly grey. Yet in the distance, there was a patch of blue. Fingers crossed, we set out for the second Free Shakespeare in the Park play of the summer season. Rarely ha …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

I’ve long been an admirer of playwright Wendy Wasserstein but had never seen her 1997 play An American Daughter. So I looked forward to the recent revival by LaFemme Theatre Productions. Although the play is somewhat dated, some basic themes remain c …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

For 25 years, Birthright Israel has sent young Jewish adults to Israel to experience the culture and values of the country from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv and places in between. For ten days at no cost, the participants, ages 18-26, tour Israel. It is 200 …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

In 1984, years before she became a one-name star, Whoopi Goldberg wrote and starred in a one-woman show called The Whoopi Monologues. The show and her unique name garnered lots of attention and praise. She went on to star in movies and television and …Read more