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Man Out Of The Blue

Posted by Jonathan Kalb | 10th Jun 2025 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America

Angry Alan is an ickily pointed cautionary tale about an ordinary guy who falls into the rabbit...

“Between Riverside And Crazy,” Hampstead Theatre

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 25th May 2024 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics

It’s often said that contemporary American playwrights are too polite, too afraid of giving...

The Comeuppance, Almeida Theatre

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 18th Apr 2024 | Acting, Review, United Kingdom

I’ve never been one for school reunions, but even if I had kept in touch with former classmates I...

Robert Patrick, Playwright, Has Passed Away

Posted by Magie Dominic | 19th May 2023 | New York, News, Playwriting, United States of America

Robert Patrick, playwright, passed away on April 23, 2023, at his home in Los Angeles. He was 85....

Sitting Down with Emerging Artist Thalia Ranjbar

Posted by Morgan Skolnik | 27th Feb 2023 | Directing, Interview, New York, United States of America

The work of Thalia Ranjbar may be challenging– pushing beyond norms and expectations, but at its...

The Plight of DREAMers Moves To A National Stage; Maybe This Will Truly Help

Posted by Tony Valdovinos | 16th Mar 2022 | Musical Theatre, New York, Theatre and Politics, United States of America

Sadly, social justice for DREAMers <DREAMers are undocumented individuals who were brought into...

On Changing The Disability Inclusion Narrative: An Interview With Theater Breaking Through Barriers’ Nick Viselli

Posted by Madison Parrotta | 26th Jan 2021 | Interview, New York, Theatre and Disability, United States of America

Inclusion has quickly become the commanding narrative in the theater world, but when it comes to...

“Sunday” at Atlantic Theater Company

Posted by Andrew Agress | 27th Sep 2019 | New York, Review, United States of America

Hot off the heels of the success of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, playwright Jack Thorne has...

World Premiere of Georgina Escobar’s “Then They Forgot About The Rest” Delivers Frontier Futura Funk

Posted by Trevor Boffone | 19th Apr 2019 | New York, United States of America

What lengths would you go to forget about the greatest pain of your life? Losing a child, a...

Theatre Of The Real And Embracing The Politics Of The Current Moment: Heidi Schreck’s “What The Constitution Means To Me”

Posted by Lucas Kernan | 16th Mar 2019 | Essay, New York, United States of America

“Man can change the world with bayonet and with science, but only art can renew it, in play, in...

David Henry Hwang On Theatre, Trump, And Asian-American Identity

Posted by Mevlut Katik | 15th Mar 2019 | Interview, Playwriting, United States of America

American writers don’t get much bigger than David Henry Hwang. The award-winning playwright’s...

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...

2018 Was The Year In Japan That Saw The Stage Sing, While Contemporary Drama Barely Made A Squeak

Posted by Nobuko Tanaka | 22nd Dec 2018 | Japan, Musical Theatre, News, Transcultural Collaborations

Musicals have flourished in 2018, with many young stars also helping to sell out straight plays in...

“Daniel’s Husband” At Westside Theatre

Posted by Jack Wernick | 10th Nov 2018 | LGBTQ+ Theatre, New York, Review, United States of America

A poignant, topical chamber piece for five characters, Daniel’s Husband commences with two gay...

At LCT, “Plot Points In Our Sexual Development” Traces the Edges of Queer Intimacy

Posted by Michael Appler | 8th Nov 2018 | LGBTQ+ Theatre, New York, Review, United States of America

Queer spaces, Miranda Rose Hall suggests, are uniquely suited to plot the points of sexual development, to explore the dynamic, malleable nature of identity. Queer sex not as negotiation or imitation, but as creation and innovation.

In “Midsummer” The Mobile Unit Delivers a Joyous Celebration of Life and Shakespeare

Posted by Michael Appler | 1st Nov 2018 | New York, Review, United States of America

Joe Papp would be proud had he lived to see what his Mobile Theater had become: a brimming, joyous sanctuary of inclusivity and plurality, of Shakespearean excellence armed with subtle and striking mindfulness, no longer a struggling caravan of the American theater’s earliest pioneers, but a rag-tag group of brilliant players all the same.

“Skintight” Takes Beauty to Task

Posted by Michael Appler | 5th Aug 2018 | New York, Review, United States of America

Skintight hinges on the human eye’s instinct for voyeurism, on our inevitable desire to take a peek, to stare at something we know we shouldn’t.

“Log Cabin,” and the Wilderness of LGBTQ Equality

Posted by Michael Appler | 29th Jun 2018 | LGBTQ+ Theatre, New York, Review, United States of America

After a month of Pride, Log Cabin is a cautionary tale about the price of privilege, of survival after assimilation, of what we leave behind after fleeing the fringe.