In Gina Femia's new comedy, girls in a Catholic high school wrestle with the conflicting rights and wrongs of the Church, the permissive society outside, and their own developing minds.
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Theater Review (NYC): ‘Sycorax, Cyber Queen of Qamara’ by Fengar Gael
The tempestuous story of Shakespeare's Sycorax, the witch present only in name in 'The Tempest'
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Worse Than Tigers’ by Mark Chrisler
Intermittently funny and unevenly powerful, Mark Chrisler's play 'Worse Than Tigers' is amusingly absurdist and patently symbolist yet on another level grittily real.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘the hollower’ by Liza Birkenmeier
This New Light Theater Project premiere is perceptively imagined, lovingly staged, beautifully acted, and definitely different.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘The Sea Concerto’ by August Schulenburg
A deeply personal story of love, weakness, and venality, 'The Sea Concerto' addresses wider issues too, often with penetrating clarity.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Chess’ at the Gallery Players
Rather than rehashing what's wrong with 'Chess,' I'll describe why it's still possible to enjoy the Gallery Players' production. The music is perhaps the most advanced artistic evolution of glossy '80s pop. And while I'm sure there are some curmudgeons out there who weren't fans of ABBA's sunny sound, Andersson and Ulvaeus were brilliant songwriters, master craftsmen not only of shiny dance tunes but also of lovely songs of love and loss.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘[title of show]’ at the Secret Theatre
With just four chairs and a keyboard director Scott Guthrie leads a full-tilt cast of five crisply through the sharp and funny series of twists and turns that make this epitome of self-referential shows shine.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘The Dream of the Rood’
Western Europe's earliest known dream-vision poem, newly translated from the Anglo-Saxon and adapted for the stage.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Sheila’ by The Associates
Intriguing, suspenseful, beautifully written and brilliantly acted, this world premiere production grabbed me by the nervous system and didn't let go until the lights came up.
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.
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