The specter of his wife's advancing Alzheimer's disease throw Johnny (Gordon Clapp) and his family into a dizzying whirlpool of anxiety as family secrets threaten to bubble to the surface.
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Theater Review (NYC Off-Broadway): Richard Masur in ‘The Net Will Appear’ by Erin Mallon
Richard Masur stars as an old man bowed with tragedy who strikes up a friendship with the troubled little girl next door. In the process both reveal the raw tenderness of their respective lives.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC Off-Broadway): ‘The Hello Girls,’ a New WWI Musical by Peter Mills and Cara Reichel
A smart, crisply written book by Peter Mills and Cara Reichel links a sequence of superb musical numbers, recounting in the best musical-theater tradition the little-known story of the U.S. Army's WWI female telephone switchboard operators.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Agnes’ by Catya McMullen (AMC’s ‘Dietland’)
Through his stilted, abrupt, truth-blurting observations, it's the character with Asperger's who reveals the deepest truths about human relationships in this tour-de-force play by 'Dietland' writer Catya McMullen.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC Off-Broadway): ‘A Brief History of Women’ by Alan Ayckbourn
Nearly six decades into his career, Ayckbourn maintains his sure touch on both the page and the stage, while his depictions of the long view of life continue to deepen. Brilliantly written and beautiful acted, his new time-shifting masterpiece engages both heart and mind.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC Off-Broadway): ‘The Edge of Our Bodies’ by Adam Rapp
A confusing play about teenage angst, with a twist that seemed to perplex many in the audience.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘LaBute New Theater Festival’
Few writers can match Neil LaBute's ability to muscle the hateful sides of human nature into full relief.
Read More »Theater Review (Off-Broadway NYC): ‘Invincible’ by Torben Betts
How close would you be to your neighbors if their politics were the opposite of yours?
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Rotterdam’ by Jon Brittain
In the aftermath of a season of "identity politics," the Olivier Award-winning new play zooms in on a handful of young people whose personal identity politics happen to involve sexual orientation and gender identity, but who could stand in for any and all of us. And it does so with glitz and panache, meaty insight, sinewy dialogue and performances, and top-notch skill from beginning to end.
Read More »Theater Review (Off-Broadway NYC): ‘Iphigenia in Splott’ by Gary Owen
A typhoon of a performance by Sophie Melville drives toward – and justifies – a wrenching twist. Directed with just-shy-of-frantic energy by Rachel O'Riordan, Sophie Melville's Effie is a raw slice of humanity, baring her ragged soul and bringing us her milieu, a few of the people in her life, and a critical encounter with a war veteran that bends the arc of her history toward, if not justice, a kind of heroism.
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