Tag: Off-Broadway
What ‘Ain’t No Mo’ Taught Me About 400 Years of Inequality
Audiences laughed. But no one will ever understand the pain of African Americans.
Dear Tasha Lawrence: A Letter About ‘All Our Children’
You have a tough scene late in the play. You probably know it -- what you do at the end of it.
Doreen Taylor Gets Her ‘Oscar’
An Off-Broadway musical fronts a hologram of Oscar Hammerstein II -- and faces headwinds.
Halley Feiffer: Writing New Roles One Play at a Time
How an actor who has always been a writer became a writer who has always been an actor.
Dear Deb Margolin: A Letter About ‘Imagining Madoff’
Will the real Skim Shady please stand up?
I Wrote ‘After’ — a Play About a School Gun Massacre…
...then the Stoneman Douglas High School massacre happened minutes from my home.
Isabelle Huppert Suffers (Again!) in Surreal Off-Broadway Play
Watching Florian Zeller's 'The Mother,' we suffer right along with the glorious French actress.
My Heart Doesn’t Belong to ‘Daddy’
Jeremy O. Harris' play, starring Alan Cumming and set in a pool, barely makes a ripple.
Yes, Ma: Gay Boy Playwright-Choreographer Makes Good
It's all about his mother (and her love life) in the part-play, part-dance 'The Mar Vista.'
‘Chick Flick: The Musical’ Should Be Your Quick Pick
We should all celebrate voices -- even those not necessarily our own.
Why Professional Wrestling Should Be in the Theater Conversation
Why not? After all, writers create the narratives and matches have predetermined outcomes.
Of Sound Mind: Fitz Patton Sees Theater As Tonal Adventure
Sound designer? Composer? Photographer? Publisher? Call him what you like. But call: he's listening.
Please, Lynn Nottage, Don’t Make Me ‘Meet Vera Stark’!
One of our towering dramatic playwrights finds no time for comedy.
Are Millennials Actually ‘F**ked’? Ask Matt Williams
A veteran TV writer-producer and "old white guy" explains his new play -- about Millennials.
Revisiting the Comic Tragicomedy of Sean O’Casey
Irish Rep reexamines a challenging classic, set during the Irish War for Independence.
My Journey with Orson Welles (and the Betacam)
The co-author of the new play "Maverick" remembers the year he worked with a genius.
Lear deBessonet Makes Theater as a Hopeful Public Proposal
This community organizer/director also aspires one day to recreate the Federal Theatre Project.
When a Safe House Isn’t So Safe
Abby Rosebrock's play "Blue Ridge" finds Marin Ireland is brilliantly all the rage.
I’m a Playwright, and Trigger Warnings Trouble Me
What right has anyone to tell me how audiences should experience my plays?
Thrills, Chills, Battle of Wills: Theresa Rebeck’s ‘Downstairs’ Terrifies
With Tyne Daly and Tim Daly reaching new acting heights, what is the playwright afraid of?
RIP RGB, RIP GOP, RIP USA
None of the second-rate white men currently on the Supreme Court will receive the honors given to RBG when they finally die.
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Herman Cain (and Republicans Unable)
And then there was Jerry Falwell, Jr., with his open pants, evangelical FUPA and his hands veering into prime side-boob territory with -- hey, doesn't she have a name?
