13 stories by "J. C. Wright"
"What do we want to be?" This is the central question asked by the character Runt in Enda Walsh's Disco Pigs. Runt was born in the same hospital at the same time as her best friend, Pig, wit…
In the beginning of Secret, illusionist Derren Brown tells you that he will lie to you. He also tells you that he is neither magic nor psychic. By the end of the show you may be forgiven …
There is a particular prop set up in Joe Orton's Entertaining Mr. Sloane that vividly distills both the essence of the play and the essential spirit of the playwright. One of the characters …
Probably the most important thing to realize about Gino Dilorio's Sam and Dede, or My Dinner with André the Giant is that it is really quite a lot of fun. This is a great service to the fac…
In what turned out to be a double-treat at La MaMa on March 2, the Grusomheten Teater company made its North American debut with their production of Henrik Ibsen's unfinished romantic opera …
In what turned out to be a double-treat at La MaMa on March 2, the Grusomheten Teater company made its North American debut with their production of Henrik Ibsen's unfinished romantic opera …
One of the true gems in the world of New York City off-off-Broadway theatre is La MaMa's bi-annual Puppet Series, which is now kicking off the company's 55th season. With a kaleidoscopic pre…
Owen McCafferty's play Quietly depicts a highly charged confrontation between two men on opposite sides of a violent past in their shared city of Belfast. An Abbey Theatre production, …
On the centennial of his birth, Samuel Beckett’s Not I, a notoriously difficult work for any actor, will be presented alongside two other Beckett shorts, Footfalls and Rockaby…
Seamus Heaney's The Burial at Thebes, a translation of Sophocles' tragedy Antigone, was written as a response to the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Telling the story of one woman who dares to …
The Widow of Tom's Hill, currently onstage at 59E59 Theaters, tells the story of an increasingly dangerous encounter between two people, a young widow and a sailor, set against the worst pan…
Perhaps the most interesting aspect of Tony Roberts’ new memoir Do You Know Me? is that suggested by the title itself; that is to say, the parts of the narrative that have to do with p…
On October 1st, three short plays will be debuting as part of Manhattan Repertory Theatre’s Short Play Development Project. These three plays, with the provocative titles Swollen, Wast…
