Sophie McIntosh is the playwright behind benevolent at IATI Theater, a play set in 1917 that follows four young women living in a strict Manhattan reformatory called the Inwood Benevolent Home, where they turgidly wash stains out of soiled laundry on …Read more

          In Sophie McIntosh’s compelling new play Benevolent, playing through September 12th at the IATI theater, there are a lot of ways women can get in trouble: poverty, prostitution, pregnancy and premarital sex, to name a few. The four young wo …Read more

  What’s more destructive to the human race – the threat of AI, or the reality of marriage? On the one hand, artificial intelligence seems fairly close to replacing the charmingly antiquated notion of “thinking for ourselves.” But marriage has been i …Read more

     Before I review this play, I just want to say that the Democratic Socialists of America are totally valid, I really hear what they’re saying, I appreciate their perspective, and the work they do in our community is so, so important.  I don’ …Read more

An aging man and woman, both alone in the world, meet in a nursing home and strike up a friendship over a series of games of gin. It might seem like the premise for a sentimental theatrical valentine about how two elderly people, who have been forgot …Read more

Victoria Lynne Barclay’s Camping is about an emotional wilderness rather than a literal one. Across 25 years, two women remain caught in a cycle of love, denial, and recrimination, returning again and again to a childhood tent that somehow proves spa …Read more

On Monday, June 22nd, an audience of people showed up at 11:00am at the Circle in the Square Theater at 50th St. They, and I, were planning to sit there for twelve hours until past 11:00 at night in order to watch five plays by the actor and playwrig …Read more

  Camping is the most I’ve ever cried during a play that’s set outdoors. Based on the title, I thought the show might have something to do with nature – you know, the wonderment of seeing the stars in the firmament, all that hippie-dippie, woods …Read more

Relationships make people crazy, and sometimes, in order to get your sanity back, you have to do something a little crazy yourself. To quote Lena Dunham from her recently released memoir: “Reader, sometimes you see two doors in life, one marked NORMA …Read more

You might think it’s impossible to turn a melodrama about young women, struggling with mental illness in a psychiatric facility, into musical theater. Well, yes and no. Girl, Interrupted, a musical adaptation of the 1999 film, starring now at the Pub …Read more