[Full article published in The Clyde Fitch Report, July 31, 2018.] In Marcus Gardley’s The House That Will Not Stand at New York Theatre Workshop, eight characters — seven women of color and one dead white man lying in state — populate a… Read More ›
[Full article published in The Clyde Fitch Report, May 7, 2018.] Caryl Churchill’s 1976 play Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, now revived Off-Broadway by New York Theatre Workshop, takes its title from a 1648 political pamphlet outlining the sources of economic slavery amid a… Read More ›
[article as originally published in The Clyde Fitch Report, February 27, 2018.] “The problem is not the Jamaat,” one character declares. “The problem is this family.” “We’ve lost, Dad. There’s nothing for us here.” Words of apparent surrender become, in the… Read More ›
[article as originally published in The Clyde Fitch Report, September 27, 2017.] There’s quiet devastation in the all-female voices of Amy Herzog’s Mary Jane, now playing at Off-Broadway’s New York Theatre Workshop after a run last spring at Yale Repertory Theatre. Herzog’s play does explode, but gently,… Read More ›
[article originally published in HowlRound, June 9, 2015.] The exquisite skill of a single storyteller evoking a time, a story, and a history has held humankind rapt for as long as one kinsman has reported back to the home village after… Read More ›
Red Dog Howls by Alexander Dinelaris Directed by Ken rus Schmoll Featuring Kathleen Chalfant, Alfred Narciso, Florencia Lozano New York Theatre Workshop, 79 East 4th Street September 24, 2012 (opening) — October 14, 2012 production web site Reviewed by Martha… Read More ›
Kaddish (or The Key in the Window) Based on the poem by Allen Ginsberg Created and performed by Donnie Mather Directed by Kim Weild The Adaptations Project at New York Theatre Workshop 83 East 4th Street September 29, 2011 —… Read More ›
Peter and the Starcatcher Written by Rick Elise Directed by Roger Rees and Alex Timbers Featuring Adam Chanler-Berat, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Christian Borle, Carson Elrod New York Theatre Workshop, 79 East 4th Street February 18, 2011 (1st preview) — April 17,… Read More ›
