The constant menace of teenage ambition hums under the entire production.
View More DANCE NATION (Wilma): What it means to be ferociously pubescentTag: Julianna Zinkel
MOON OVER BUFFALO (People’s Light): A few doors short of a farce
Why did People’s Light exhume this largely forgotten play from its well-deserved obscurity?
View More MOON OVER BUFFALO (People’s Light): A few doors short of a farceBRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS (Act II Playhouse): The same old schtick
A play for people who need to be told how to feel.
View More BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS (Act II Playhouse): The same old schtickIRONBOUND (Simpatico): Does this bus stop at 82nd street?
IRONBOUND takes place outside of a bus stop in front of a factory in New Jersey.
View More IRONBOUND (Simpatico): Does this bus stop at 82nd street?MAURITIUS (Act II): Feeling the philatelia
Act II Playhouse gets all dramatic with Theresa Rebeck’s MAURITIUS
View More MAURITIUS (Act II): Feeling the philateliaTHE HARASSMENT OF IRIS MALLOY (People’s Light): A male perspective on the socio-economics of sexual politics
A world-premiere play about sexual misconduct, politics, lies, and opportunism considers the economic hardships on single mothers in a culture of winning at all costs.
View More THE HARASSMENT OF IRIS MALLOY (People’s Light): A male perspective on the socio-economics of sexual politicsTHE LANGUAGE ARCHIVE (BRT): A poetic parable about the language of love
Julia Cho’s lofty romantic comedy examines the beauty of language and the failure of humans to communicate.
View More THE LANGUAGE ARCHIVE (BRT): A poetic parable about the language of loveAUCTIONING THE AINSLEYS (People’s Light): Familial dysfunction, memory, and the significance of objects
Laura Schellhardt’s foray into the Pop psychology of familial dysfunction and the significance of personal possessions is given its regional premiere.
View More AUCTIONING THE AINSLEYS (People’s Light): Familial dysfunction, memory, and the significance of objectsBILOXI BLUES (People’s Light): Coming of age in WWII
Though entertaining as a comedy, BILOXI BLUES contains an important message about fighting “the good war” abroad, while many struggles against injustice remain on the home front.
View More BILOXI BLUES (People’s Light): Coming of age in WWIIUNDER THE SKIN (Arden): The boundaries of the body and the limits of love: It’s complicated
There’s little inherent humor in a guy needing a kidney, but evidently no one told that to Michael Hollinger.
View More UNDER THE SKIN (Arden): The boundaries of the body and the limits of love: It’s complicatedPRIDE & PREJUDICE (People’s Light & Theatre Company): Structure and Snobbery in Regency England
PRIDE & PREJUDICE, Jane Austen’s classic tale of class, courtship, and decorum in 19th-century England, celebrated its 200th anniversary in 2013. People’s Light & Theatre…
View More PRIDE & PREJUDICE (People’s Light & Theatre Company): Structure and Snobbery in Regency EnglandSTICK FLY (Arden): An inventive, relentlessly funny look at race and class
The immaculate Martha’s Vineyard home of the African American LeVay family is the set for Lydia R. Diamond’s STICK FLY at Arden Theatre Company. Plush sofas and pristine white cabinetry are the trappings around which the evening’s drama unfolds. The audience has a window into the kitchen, living room and porch where at times multiples scenes take place at complementary intervals; sometimes echoing their counterparts in the next room. The characters in the play are a complex set, all with different but overlapping backgrounds—some more than they realize.
View More STICK FLY (Arden): An inventive, relentlessly funny look at race and classBARCELONA (People’s Light): Transatlantic tension, transatlantic truth
She’s an American tourist on a girls’ holiday, seeking out a romantic, exotic fantasy of Spain. He’s a dashing, seductive Spaniard who takes her to…
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