The life of the poet-scholar A.E. Housman illuminates the social and mental compromises that must be made when society outlaws an essential part of one's very nature.
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Theater Review (NYC): ‘The Body of Mary: A Play in 3 Acts (of God)’ by Katie Cappiello
Cappiello wields a crossbow of stinging humor to explore in three one-act plays how the Catholic Church treats women's bodies in the context of motherhood.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Les Enfants Terribles’
Michael Gardner directs his new adaptation of Jean Cocteau's novella, creating a lurid phantasmagoria of mental warping animated by rabid performances.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Alice Won’t Die’ by Grace Tomblin Marca
A screw-up gets a trio of killers-for-hire in trouble and the only solution is another murder. But just how did it happen? 'Alice Won't Die' asks us to decide whose perspective to trust.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘benevolent’ by Sophie McIntosh
The play reveals how the Inwood Benevolent Home's soothing name masked harsh conditions for "fallen" women under the Magdalene Society.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘I Wanttt a Unicorn Frappe!!!’ by Catherine Weingarten
The fantasy fable follows the preparations for a wedding between over-the-moon Jenny and Sebastian, a shiftless, barely-interested charmer who seems to have proposed as a lark.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Loneliness Was a Pandemic’ by Olivia Haller – Can You Teach a Robot to Make Art?
A powerful assertion of humanity in the face of an AI dystopia is onstage now at Theaterlab.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): Blessed Unrest Presents ‘La Musica Deuxième’ by Marguerite Duras
Matilda Woods and Taylor 'TV' Valentine star in an intimate, wine-soaked off-off-Broadway revival of Marguerite Duras' psychological drama of a couple that can't quite quit.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Urinetown’ at the Secret Theatre
The Secret Theatre is back and as good as ever with its first adult musical since the pandemic.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Herself’
Kathleen Simmonds burns up the stage as a prodigal daughter who shakes things up on her return to the family's Irish pub after a family tragedy.
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