342 stories by "Carey"
Theatregoers, consider yourself warned. Long after exiting the Booth Theatre, where the achingly beautiful revival of The Glass Menagerie is currently in performances, this play will stay wi…
An interview with Sara Montgomery, founding member of The New Ateh Theater Group, and Francesca Day and Marta Kuersten, co-founders of Cake Productions, whose theatre companies are teaming u…
When Lauren LoGuidice met Greta Garbo, it was a match made in Heaven. LoGuidice, an actor, writer and producer, had recently completed performing one solo show titled Queens Girl and wasn't …
Love is many things in this musical adaptation of Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost – a gun, a game and most of all, a puzzlement. Written and directed by Alex Timbers and composed by…
I’m not a big fan of sitcoms – I don’t subscribe to cable or get any TV stations at my apartment – so I was a little disappointed in finding a combination of a sitcom…
When did being busy become such a bad thing? Ever since I got my driver’s license and could get around on my own, I have been busy. In high school, I was busy with school, an internshi…
“Together/Far Apart showcases 3 pairs of poets and their journey together as they navigate a myriad of relationships while negotiating art-making, time, family, space and dreams. Can t…
I’m just going to say it: I don’t care about the royal baby. I’m glad the baby and his mother are healthy in the context that I’m impersonally happy that any baby and…
I was so motivated after seeing The Future Has Spoken: A Celebration of Emerging Young Artists at Women Center Stage. Featuring the talents of Girl Be Heard, viBe Theater Experience and Urba…
Dominique Fishback performs Subverted, a one-woman show of spoken word, by the poet and first time playwright. Subverted portrays the destruction of Black identity through the eyes of Eden. …
Dina Vovsi directs everything’s whispered (for now). “Joann is late for her first day of work, she’s recently divorced, and she’d really like to get her 8 year-old da…
Tracy Bersley directs For Immediate (and timely) Release, By Daniel Piper Kublick, Dorothy Abrahams and Bersley. Important up-to-date information for Bunker AA 6-4-2-0! Only essential person…
Lauren Whitehead directs her original work A Tribe Called Blessed: Songs toward the Advancement of (T)history. Every story has a point of origin and a different point of origin depending on …
Sherri Eden Barber directs Only You Can Prevent Wildfires Conceived by Barber and written by Harrison David Rivers. In 2002, the Hayman Fire burned 133 homes, 138,114 acres and forced the ev…
Madeline Sayet directs Daughters of Leda, which she also wrote. Leda was raped by a swan. Later, her swan-babies, Helen and Clytemnestra, became just as infamous as she. How many glitches oc…
I am proud to announce I am an official press partner for Culture Project’s Women Center Stage Festival. For the next week, CareyPurcell.com will feature interviews with the participan…
I left the Seeing Place Theater's production of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead with my head full of questions. What exactly had happened? What was this play trying to say? And why had…
It's hard to be outraged when laughing this hard. But the delightfully entertaining production of The Comedy of Errors, currently playing as part of Shakespeare in the Park at the Delacorte …
What would happen if everyone woke up tomorrow and loved the body they were in? That is a good question. And one that is being asked in the upcoming documentary theatre production Good Shape…
Anyone suffering from desensitization regarding gun violence as a result of oversaturation of the media should hurry to the Gene Frankel Theatre, where 9MM America is currently playing. A pr…
Tucker Max…on stage. Right. Adapted for the stage by a gay man who doesn't drink. Right. That was my first thought when I heard about I Hope They Serve Beer on Broadway, the stage adap…
I am one of the biggest musical theater geeks in the world, but even I am glad Smash is being cancelled. The NBC drama about putting on a Broadway show, starring Katharine McPhee and Megan H…
It's no secret that I'm not a fan of the Fifty Shades of Grey book series. Having read all three, I wrote a blog post sharing my opinions on the relationship in the book – which I cons…
A trip to the theatre may not feel like a trip to the bountiful for some, but the production of Horton Foote's play by the same name is certainly a bounty of pleasure. Currently in performan…
I knew I was in for a treat from the first moment of Pippin, when a sexy silhouette of a certain pair of hands appeared, along with a sultry invitation to, "join us." The revival of this mus…
