Exploring what it means to be beautiful, this vivid show inspired by a West African fable lenses familiar passions and traumas into high relief.
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Theater Review (NYC Off-Broadway): ‘Noura’ by Heather Raffo at Playwrights Horizons
A seemingly settled Iraqi immigrant family meets a young refugee and old wounds open in this fine new drama.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC Off-Broadway): ‘I Was Most Alive with You’ by Craig Lucas
Being Deaf today brings with it controversies over vocalizing, lip reading, and ASL. All of that helps define just one character in Craig Lucas's kaleidoscope of a drama, now in its New York premiere at Playwrights Horizons.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘The Watson Intelligence’ by Madeleine George
This is a clever exploration into the human mind and heart, via the reality of artificial intelligence.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Rapture, Blister, Burn’ by Gina Gionfriddo
Amy Brenneman stars as Playwrights Horizons calls on the deities and demons of feminism, from Freud and Nancy Friday to Phyllis Schlafly.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Milk Like Sugar’ by Kirsten Greenidge at Playwrights Horizons
Desperate for positive reinforcement, Annie doesn't even know what to do with herself when she gets some.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘A Small Fire’ by Adam Bock at Playwrights Horizons
A tough, middle-aged construction contractor is losing her senses—literally.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): Clybourne Park
1959: a black family is moving into a white neighborhood. 2009: after hard times, the same neighborhood is re-gentrifying.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): THIS by Melissa James Gibson at Playwrights Horizons
The "annoying" gay friend – hardly the sitcom stereotype.
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