The blurb on this play says it’s about a well-off family in Chicago, who adopt a former child-soldier from Uganda: “As the two worlds collide, he is yet again a victim and perpetrator of a war just as damaging as the one he escaped.” I believe I saw …Read more

At the beginning of “Craving for Travel”, a two-actor, thirty-character comedy by Greg Edwards and Andy Sandberg, the lights come up to reveal two offices. One is inhabited by Gary (played by Thom Sesma) and the other by Joanne (Michelle Ragusa).  Th …Read more

“A Brief History of the Soviet Union” is not a single story, but rather a series of chronological vignettes that take place at strategic points in the history of the USSR. Starting with the Russian revolution of 1917, and ending around 2000, we are t …Read more

Don’t count on Carole King to see the new musical that depicts her life. “This show is very revealing and painful. There are moments she doesn’t want to live again,” points out Cynthia Weill, King’s longtime friend and one of the major characters por …Read more

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a 19th-century American feminist and writer, claimed that she wrote the short story “The Yellow Wall-Paper” in an attempt to relegate the “rest cure” — routinely prescribed by doctors for ‘nervous conditions’ — to the anna …Read more

“Have I No Mouth” stands as one of the rarities in theatre that master both the delicacies and weight of speech and sight. Irish playwright Feidlim Cannon takes on the ‘holy trifecta’ in this production: writing and directing the piece (with Gary Kee …Read more

John Patrick Shanley’s latest play, “Outside Mullingar”, opened last night (Jan. 23) at Manhattan Theater Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theater. The work is something of a “Doubt” homecoming. Shanley’s 2005 Pulitzer and Tony-winning drama was directed by …Read more

New York is supposed to be the pinnacle of great theater and Princeton isn’t too far away; now, we may have to go ahead and add the McCarter Theater to that list.  Their production of “Fences” under the masterful direction of Phylicia Rashad is extra …Read more

The Ellis siblings, Chris (Brian P. Murphy) and Les (Brian McManamon), are hiding a secret that has haunted them for almost two decades, which has left Chris mentally unstable and has turned Les into his guardian, preventing him from developing meani …Read more

Alan Sillitoe’s 1959 short story “The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner” focuses on Colin Smith, a working class young man who finds himself in a prison school (populated by other working class young men) after getting caught for petty theft.  B …Read more