Heiress Productions is a non-profit theater company founded in New York City in 2006 by Laura Faith and Mary Willis White. The company tries to raise awareness of cancer and cancer organizations and donates a portion of each production’s ticket sale …Read more
The intimate and striking performance given by the cast of “Three of a Kind, With Two Wild Cards” is one that will have your heart pounding and thoughts whirling. Ongoing through December 1st, Robert Homeyer’s sophomore production for Theater for the …Read more
Martin McDonagh’s “The Pillowman” is an intense play. It’s gross, vile, funny, and makes you think. It’s received numerous accolades, including Olivier and Drama Critics’ Circle Awards and a Tony nomination for Best Play (as well as two Tony Awards f …Read more
George Orwell cynically believed that revolutionary and counter-revolutionary forces both had the same goal: getting and keeping power at any cost. Halfway through “Purchase” by Ian W. Hill, Lady Stefanie Anderssen expresses this same point of view. …Read more
It is hard to put a finger on exactly why Termination Productions’ version of “The Seagull” by Anton Chekov directed by Richard Haymes-Esposito at the June Havoc Theater is so disturbing. This staging of the play is very uneven and choppy. The perf …Read more
“Obedient Steel” is a surreal and campy romp, now playing at the HERE Arts Center. Both highly entertaining and highly disconcerting, the play focuses on a group of scientists who are developing an atomic bomb. It is less about those who would feel …Read more
Paula Vogel, author of the Pulitzer-winning play “How I Learned to Drive”, wrote “The Baltimore Waltz” following the death of her brother, Carl, from complications due to AIDS in 1988. Upon its premiere Off-Broadway in 1992, it won an Obie for Best …Read more
The Daughter (of Indra, Hindu god of war and thunderstorms) decides to check out The Humanity Thing, and rides a cloud down to earth — not to India, as one might expect, but to a circa 1900 industrialized northern Europe, where the air is nasty (pol …Read more
“Andy@62”, a deeply personal and voyeuristic theatrical experience, might offer new insights into four icons: Andy Warhol, Frida Kahlo, Marilyn Monroe, and Marlene Dietrich. However, that is not really the point of this part-play, part-tour exhibitin …Read more
“Fix Me, Jesus” is a show about a woman in crisis. In Abingdon Theatre Company’s latest outing, Annabell Armstrong (Polly Lee) is a rising star in the Texas Democratic Party, although her personal life seems to be falling to bits. Where else would a …Read more