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
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
It’s a post-sexual revolution world and Rosario is hung up on the 1970s counterculture she was once a part of. The glory days are over for this flamenco dancer and now she hangs around an old stage in San Diego, waiting for someone, anyone, to show u …Read more
You may call what James Lecesne does in The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey (at Dixon Place) what you will — performance art, a one-man-show, a monodrama. What it is, decidedly, is an invigorating theatre experience, both moving and highly ente …Read more
Sheila Callaghan’s Everything You Touch is half a biting satire about the world of fashion, half a story about a woman trying to find her true self. The plot is composed of two storylines that eventually complement each other, the first one set in 19 …Read more
When Adah Isaacs Menken died in 1868, at the very young age of 33, she left behind a legacy that included several failed marriages, friendships with the likes of Charles Dickens, Alexandre Dumas and George Sand, not to mention a legendary performance …Read more
Our lives are so often mundane and prosaic compared to the mischief we find in our theaters. You rarely pay your ticket price to watch someone wrestle with supermarket sales or indulge in a Netflix marathon after a tedious day of licking envelopes. V …Read more
It’s the year 1979 and when we first meet Osceola Mays (Lillias White) and John Burrus (Scott Wakefield) they are in a Texan airport waiting room, making time before their flight to Paris departs. Mays, an African American widow, and Burrus, an all-A …Read more
