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

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

photo by joan Marcus While the war in Vietnam raged on, the summer of ‘69 distracted Americans with the Apollo 11 moon landing and walk by Neil Armstrong and later, the joyous gathering of an estimated 500,000 peace – loving music- loving young peopl …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