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A night of sharp-witted shorts by Pulitzer and Academy Award-winner John Patrick Shanley

John Patrick Shanley is legendary, so it’s no surprise that his new one-act plays (billed as “five short digressions”), premiering at the Brooklyn Navy Yards by the Bridge Production Group, make for a night of laugh-out-loud, razor-sharp comedy. (I A …Read more


A hilarious party of, by, and for theatre people

At this point, countless musicals (some good, some not so good) have been written on just about every topic under the sun. But a musical about two people writing a musical? Now playwrights are just scraping the bottom of the barrel. Or so it would se …Read more


'Waiting for Godot' meets 'The Twilight Zone' in this masterpiece of absurdist theatre

Absurdism is a tricky genre: tricky to write and tricky to perform. That’s what makes Edward Einhorn’s absurdist science fiction drama Alma Baya so impressive: it’s nearly perfect. Two women named Alma and Baya live inside a pod on an air-less planet …Read more


A hospital brings two strangers together in this sweet audio play

In Jeff Mustard’s Chance, the latest offering from the Open-Door Playhouse Podcast, two hospital patients form an unlikely friendship. Directed by Dennis Gersten, the audio play follows a young woman who OD’s in a failed suicide attempt and an older …Read more


Three Karens try to take back their reputation in this Tina Fey-esque comedy

We all know a Karen. That entitled, bossy person who thinks the rules don’t apply to them, always asking to talk to the manager. “Karen,” a slang term for any woman who fits the above description, has become the butt of countless memes, TikToks, and …Read more


Brent Ziff is a popular radio personality whose job is simply to make fun of anyone and everyone who calls in. But he may have met his match in Leo Short: an awkward loner who calls in to announce that life as we know it is about to end. Written by M …Read more


When a former FBI informant wakes up in the Egyptian afterlife, he faces a dire choice: unburden his heart by confessing his childhood traumas and guilty acts, or get devoured by a pack of hungry crocodiles, thereby ceasing to exist forever. Taking i …Read more


As we continue to do the necessary work to make our world and our industry a more fair and equitable place for all (and make no mistake, we know that work has to be done), we can’t help but acknowledge that, were things up and running, the last few w …Read more


From Back to the Future to King Lear

“I don’t remember Christopher Lloyd,” said the woman sitting behind us in the outdoor theater. “Jim from the TV show Taxi,” we reminded her. “Oh, the crazy one.” For some, Lloyd might seem like a strange choice to portray the tragic leading character …Read more


Having an alien inside your body is not a new concept in the world of sci-fi (see The Host, The Thing, and, of course, Alien). But Give Me Away, a multi-season science fiction audio drama by Mac Rogers, puts a new spin on the idea. A spaceship crashe …Read more


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