If you ever watched “The Office” (and is there anyone who hasn’t?) you know Holly Flax, the HR person who becomes Michael’s girlfriend. Played by Amy Ryan, she is always smiling, optimistic and a bit goofy. It was hard to envision the same actress as …Read more
John Patrick Shanley’s new play Candlelight is sort of like West Side Story–but with 10-year-olds, Jim Henson-esque demons, and a scantily clad fairy. Directed by Lori Kee, Candlelight, a Nuyorican fairytale set in Brooklyn, receives its world premi …Read more
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
“I need an objective. I need an arc. Life is short. I don’t want bitterness to eat me alive.” While this line is spoken by the lovelorn Atalanta early on in The Portuguese Kid, MTC’s new John Patrick Shanley work recently extended by popular demand t …Read more
The renowned and industry-respected actor and teacher, Roger Hendricks Simon, brings the best of his students to the stage in his regular Simon Studio Performance Lab events. The evening featured excerpts of scenes from Shakespeare’s King Lear, Othel …Read more
