2025 Drama Desk Award event and winners
June 1, 2025 — Winners for the 2025 Annual Drama Desk Awards were announced this evening at the Jack H. Skirball Center For The Performing Arts (NYU Skirball at 556 LaGuardia […]
2025 Drama Desk nominations announced
April 30, 2025 — Nominations for the 69th Annual Drama Desk Awards were announced today on Spectrum News NY1 by Norm Lewis and Spectrum News NY1 hosts. In keeping with the […]
Churchill combines future terrors and present horrors with generous human instincts
Glass. Kill. What If If Only. Imp.Featuring Japhet Balaban, Ruby Blaut, Kyle Cameron, Orlagh Cassidy, John Ellison Conlee, Adelind Horan, Maddox Morfit-Tighe, Deirdre O’Connell, Cecilia Ann Popp, Sathya Sridharan, Junru Want, […]
Classroom scene study and deep power revelations
John Proctor Is the VillainFeaturing Nihar Duvvuri, Gabriel Ebert, Molly Griggs, Maggie Kuntz, Hagan Oliveras, Morgan Scott, Sadie Sink, Fina Strazza, and Amalia YooBooth TheatreMarch 20, 2025 – July 6, 2025 […]
Building a life and coming to personal truth in memoir-based drama
Becoming EveFeaturing Tommy Dorfman, Judy Kuhn, Tedra Millan, Rad Pereria, Richard Schiff, and Brandon UranowitzNew York Theatre Workshop | Abrons Arts CenterMarch 20, 2025 – April 27, 2025 [extended]production site Becoming […]
Secrets, lies, social legacies, and family survival
PurposeFeaturing Alana Arenas, Glenn Davis, Jon Michael Hill, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Harry Lennix, and Kara YoungHelen Hayes TheaterFebruary 25, 2025 – July 6, 2025production site Purpose on Broadway plays as a […]
Women find community at the social battle lines of 1970s America
LiberationFeaturing Betsy Aidem, Audrey Corsa, Kayla Davion, Susanna Flood, Kristolyn Lloyd, Irene Sofia Lucio, Charlie Thurston, and Adina VersonLaura Pels TheatreJanuary 3, 2025 – March 2, 2025production site In a contender […]
Language lessons as aspiration, identity, and community
EnglishFeaturing Tala Ashe, Ava Lalezarzadeh, Pooya Mohseni, Marjan Neshat, and Hadi TabbalTodd Haimes TheatreJanuary 3, 2025 – March 2, 2025production site Downtown moves uptown from Atlantic Theater Company’s Linda Gross stage […]
2024: excavation review
Productions and events at which I counted, built collaborations, and supported theater and its creatives.
Gentle revelations in song in a robot-assisted future
Maybe Happy EndingFeaturing Darren Criss, Helen J Shen, Marcus Choi, and Dez DuronBelasco TheatreOctober 16, 2024 – runningproduction site Our world of dramatic literature, films, and television offerings (the most recent […]
Thornton Wilder’s small town story at a breakneck pace
Our TownFeaturing Jim Parsons, Zoey Deutch, Katie Holmes, Billy Eugene Jones, Ephraim Sykes, Richard Thomas, Michelle Wilson, Julie Halston, and Donald Webber, Jr.Ethel Barrymore TheatreSeptember 17, 2024 – January 19, 2025production […]
Pain, pathos, and humanity served up as gentle gestures in The Counter
The CounterFeaturing Anthony Edwards, Susanna Flood, and Amy WarrenRoundabout Theatre Company | Laura PelsSeptember 20, 2024 – November 17, 2024production site Two lonely people meet in a public community space — […]
Creeping terror masked as medical interrogation in an airport detention area
Blood of the LambFeaturing Meredith Garretson and Kelly McAndrewHarbor Stage Company | 59E59 TheatersSeptember 14, 2024 – October 20, 2024production site We think we know where an abortion play is headed […]
Medea through rap provides surprising revelations
Medea Re-VersedFeaturing Siena D’Addario, Melissa Mahoney, Mark Martin, Jacob Ming-Trent, Luis Quintero, Stephen Michael Spencer, and Sarin Monae WestRed Bull Theater and Bedlam | Sheen CenterSeptember 12, 2024 – October 20, […]
This audience hears voices immersed in an encounter group
The Voices in Your HeadFeaturing Christian Caro, Marcia Debonis, Alex Gibson, Tom Mezger, Daphne Overbeck, Jamila Sabares-Klemm, Erin Treadway, and Jehan O. YoungEgg & Spoon Theatre CollectiveSeptember 9, 2024 – October […]
Your table is ready at Table 17
Table 17Featuring Biko Eisen-Martin, Michael Rishawn, and Kara YoungMCC TheaterAugust 14, 2024 – September 29 , 2024 [extended]production site Douglas Lyons has crafted a sneakily layered romcom, a heartfelt study of […]
urban excavations 