Abigail Weil

regional managing editor

a.weil@thetheatretimes.com

Abigail Weil recently completed a PhD in Harvard's Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures where she focused on twentieth-century Czech prose. In addition to drama and literature, Abigail's interests include the grotesque, food and food writing, magazine culture, queer and feminist theory, and mystifications. She is currently working on a book about Jaroslav Hašek.

“Ajijaak On Turtle Island”: New York Stories Old And New

Posted by Abigail Weil | 6th Mar 2019 | New York, Puppetry, Review, Theatre for Young Audiences, Transcultural Collaborations, United States of America

On a recent Sunday afternoon, at the New Victory Theater, timelines collided. The New Vic, founded...

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Tears of a Clown: “American Juggalo”

Posted by Abigail Weil | 1st Mar 2019 | Adaptation, Documentary Theatre, New York, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America

What is a juggalo? Let me think for a second…Oh! He gets butt-naked and then he walks through the...

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Meshuggah, Nein? “Fiddler” In Yiddish

Posted by Abigail Weil | 24th Feb 2019 | Musical Theatre, New York, Review, United States of America

In 2004, Gwen Stefani, lately of the band No Doubt, released a song called Rich Girl which sampled...

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Pie in the Sky: Eliza Bent Delights With “Bonnie’s Last Flight”

Posted by Abigail Weil | 13th Feb 2019 | New York, Review, United States of America

I follow a strict protocol of attitudinal class warfare when I board airplanes. As I walk proudly...

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Two Bold Shows by Women of Color at Mabou Mines

Posted by Abigail Weil | 9th Feb 2019 | Festivals, New York, Review, Theatre and Gender, United States of America

When I entered the theater at Mabou Mines for Edisa Weeks’ performance of Three Rites: Liberty, my...

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China, Liberia, America: A Suite Of Women’s Stories

Posted by Abigail Weil | 7th Feb 2019 | Festivals, New York, Review, Theatre and Film, Theatre and Gender, United States of America

In an intimate performance space in New York’s East Village, a quietly consequential experiment is...

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Rise And Shine: “AWAKE!” At The Barrow Group

Posted by Abigail Weil | 20th Jan 2019 | New York, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America

The mission of AWAKE!, written and directed by K. Lorrel Manning and currently premiering at the...

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Terrific Power: “St. Kilda” at the So-Fi Festival in NYC

Posted by Abigail Weil | 21st Dec 2018 | Festivals, New York, Review, Theatre and Gender, United States of America

Jody Christopherson’s one-woman show St. Kilda, at the So-Fi Festival, gave me one of the...

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Amazing Grace: The Barrow Group Presents “The Tricky Part”

Posted by Abigail Weil | 6th Dec 2018 | LGBTQ Theatre, New York, Review, United States of America

“Sun is bad for you. Everything our parents told us was good is bad. Sun. Milk. Red meat....

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“Chasing The New White Whale”: Neither Fish Nor Fowl

Posted by Abigail Weil | 5th Dec 2018 | New York, Review, United States of America

Michael Gorman’s latest play Chasing The New White Whale, at La MaMa where he is the Playwright in...

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Pilgrims’ Progress: Larissa FastHorse’s “The Thanksgiving Play”

Posted by Abigail Weil | 29th Nov 2018 | Devised Theatre, New York, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America

The political mantra “Nothing about us without us” is hard to object to immediately–it makes...

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“OnlyHuman” At Danspace Project

Posted by Abigail Weil | 22nd Nov 2018 | New York, Review, Theatre and Dance, United States of America

In the celebratory cookbook Cake, Maira Kalman writes: “When we lived in Rome we had a party...

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“Rags Parkland Sings The Songs Of The Future” – Sci-fi Folk Concert at Ars Nova

Posted by Abigail Weil | 2nd Nov 2018 | New York, Review, United States of America

What forces in today’s society will retain their power three hundred years into the future?...

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“Measure For Measure”: Shakespeare’s #MeToo Moment

Posted by Abigail Weil | 27th Oct 2018 | Boston, Review, Russia, Russian Theatre Abroad, Theatre and Gender

Cheek by Jowl’s production of Shakespeare’s Measure For Measure, performed in Russian by actors...

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