Category: Theater
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A Forced Distinction Between Human and Non-Human Animals in Sophie McIntosh’s ROAD KILLS
Non-human animals are so often conceived of as wholly different from us: incapable of understanding emotions, governed by primal instincts alone, without agency. As human animals, we sometimes are confronted […]
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Transcending A Gimmick: Pocket Ghost and As We Were Production’s OFFICE PARTY PLAY
“Why are you being so weird?” My fiancé leaned over and whispered in my ear. We had just been introduced to the Director of Communications for a book launch held […]
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“Make me possible”: Dealing with Precarity in Caryl Churchill’s GLASS. KILL. WHAT IF IF ONLY. IMP.
A glowing platform. A cloud. A white box. A living room rug. These are the four settings of Caryl Churchill’s series of one-act plays presented this past spring at the […]
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An Artistic Inheritance: George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart’s YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU at the Brooklyn Center for Theatre Research
“What do we carry? What do we inherit?” On one of the first hot, humid nights this spring, I entered the packed Brooklyn Center for Theatre Research’s intimate loft space […]
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Serviceability with an Edge: A 21st Century Staging of the 1937 Hit YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU
You can’t knock You Can’t Take it With You. The 1937 Pulitzer Prize winning play, which just enjoyed a production at the Brooklyn Centre for Theatre Research, remains popular among […]
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In REVOLUTION, Brett Neveu presents a radical vision of celebrations and the friends who make them possible
“Celebrations are rare these days.” That’s what Jame says to her best friend, Puff, the recently promoted and highly anxious manager at Revolution Cuts, a chain hair salon nestled in […]
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THE TRUTH IS THE TRUTH IS THE TRUTH IS THE: A Conversation with Hallie Chametzky on Gertrude Stein and Nuanced Reckonings
I was sixteen in 2016, when Trump was elected for the first time. I went to the March for Our Lives in Boston. I fastened witty political buttons to my […]
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In SOONEST MENDED, Matthew Gasda Shows Off the Fashionable Foibles of the Educated Elite
I could picture the eye rolls coming, the sheer exasperation. There could be no other reaction. “It’s a play about this Brooklyn couple– they’ve been married for years, now they’re […]
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Heloise Wilson’s ASTRONAUTS WANTED: An Approachable Story Written Deftly
Do I want to go to Mars? Not really, no. I was never one of those kids who looked up at the night sky and pointed to the stars […]
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A(U)NTS! Up Close
With her uncanny ability to capture highly-specific instances and deeply darkly kept-secret feelings, along with her bravery to really go there with descriptions of the body and all of its innate gore, Zoë Geltman imagines a world where women can be disgustingly free.
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Eric Bogosian’s HUMPTY DUMPTY Shows Its Age.
Set in the year 2000, flip phones are everywhere in Humpty Dumpty. The two central couples, Hallmark characters with high-power city jobs, spend much of the play walking around desperately […]
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In NYTW’s BECOMING EVE Being Jewish is Living in Paradox
TRADITION: it’s what survives into the next generation, what parents and teachers pass along to their children, and what we find ourselves replicating for better or worse. If the present […]