As in all of Stephen Adly Guirgis’s plays, Between Riverside and Crazy drops you off at the intersection of absurd, tragic, profane, and sublime. The traffic is coming from all ...
Knowledge may be power. But in Belladonna, a “Rappaccini’s Daughter”-inspired dance piece from Adam Barruch and Chelsea Bonosky, too much power can be toxic. Inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story, ...
What is a black play? Who is a black playwright? These are just some of the difficult questions posed by Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins’s darkly (no pun intended) comedic revision of Dion ...
Perhaps fittingly, Bottom’s Dream’s The Ghost – like the two Shakespearean tragedies of power on which it is based – feels like an at-times disjointed union of two plays: one ...
Writer-director Ava Lee Scott’s dynamic and personal production tests the limits of actor-audience interaction, though a few kinks remain. Continue Reading Ceremony and Complicity at Serenade
In many ways, the Storm Theatre/Blackfriars’ Theatre revival of Gigi (adapted by Anita Loos from Colette’s novella) is as simple as its teenage heroine herself. Located in a fifty-odd seat ...
What price freedom? Euripides’ The Bacchae is a savage tale of mothers murdering children mistook for beasts, orgiastic pleasure and religious ecstasy that comes at the cost of the ramparts ...
How to translate Chekhov? The problem of rendering the richly idiomatic works of the Russian playwright into contemporary English has plagued so many American and English attempts at staging Three Sisters. ...
