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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. And when families become very unhappy, they imprison each other inside manmade bomb shelters. Or so Tolstoy wo…
Though we understand their circumstances may have been a bit different, like Oliver and his clan of orphan boys, we’ve all fallen into a daze dreaming of “food, glorious food” at one p…
Sophie McIntosh is the playwright behind benevolent at IATI Theater, a play set in 1917 that follows four young women living in a strict Manhattan reformatory called the Inwood Benevolent Ho…
In Sophie McIntosh’s compelling new play Benevolent, playing through September 5th at the IATI theater, there are a lot of ways women can get in trouble: poverty, prostituti…
It had been raining off and on for several days. The air was thick and the sky slightly grey. Yet in the distance, there was a patch of blue. Fingers crossed, we set out for the second Free …
Maybe Happy Ending’s savviest Helperbot shares her favorite food spots before or after a show. Though we understand their circumstances may have been a bit different, like Oliver and his…
What if there were no men in the world? Feminist authors have been exploring that concept for over a century, from Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland in 1915 to Joanna Russ’s 1975 specul…
I’ve long been an admirer of playwright Wendy Wasserstein but had never seen her 1997 play An American Daughter. So I looked forward to the recent revival by LaFemme Theatre Productions. A…
What’s more destructive to the human race – the threat of AI, or the reality of marriage? On the one hand, artificial intelligence seems fairly close to replacing the charmingly antiq…
What’s more important, the plight of the proletariat, or one’s sex life? As many have discovered over the years, pretending to care about the former is good for the latter. (Excep…
Though we understand their circumstances may have been a bit different, like Oliver and his clan of orphan boys, we’ve all fallen into a daze dreaming of “food, glorious food” at one p…
Though we understand their circumstances may have been a bit different, like Oliver and his clan of orphan boys, we’ve all fallen into a daze dreaming of “food, glorious food” at one p…
Though we understand their circumstances may have been a bit different, like Oliver and his clan of orphan boys, we’ve all fallen into a daze dreaming of “food, glorious food” at one p…
For 25 years, Birthright Israel has sent young Jewish adults to Israel to experience the culture and values of the country from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv and places in between. For ten days at n…
An aging man and woman, both alone in the world, meet in a nursing home and strike up a friendship over a series of games of gin. It might seem like the premise for a sentimental theatrical …
In 1984, years before she became a one-name star, Whoopi Goldberg wrote and starred in a one-woman show called The Whoopi Monologues. The show and her unique name garnered lots of attention …
Though we understand their circumstances may have been a bit different, like Oliver and his clan of orphan boys, we’ve all fallen into a daze dreaming of “food, glorious food” at one p…
Imagine an essay on camp and performance disguised as a play. No, don’t imagine that – the play is too entertaining. Imagine instead a theatrical commentary on camp, with two drag perfor…
Though we understand their circumstances may have been a bit different, like Oliver and his clan of orphan boys, we’ve all fallen into a daze dreaming of “food, glorious food” at one p…
Though we understand their circumstances may have been a bit different, like Oliver and his clan of orphan boys, we’ve all fallen into a daze dreaming of “food, glorious food” at one p…
Victoria Lynne Barclay’s Camping is about an emotional wilderness rather than a literal one. Across 25 years, two women remain caught in a cycle of love, denial, and recrimination, returni…
photo by joan Marcus While the war in Vietnam raged on, the summer of ‘69 distracted Americans with the Apollo 11 moon landing and walk by Neil Armstrong and later, the joyous gathering of…
On Monday, June 22nd, an audience of people showed up at 11:00am at the Circle in the Square Theater at 50th St. They, and I, were planning to sit there for twelve hours until past 11:00 at…
“You ever feel like the whole decade’s gone by and you haven’t even been in it?” Such is the question posed in A Walk on the Moon, the new musical adapted from the award-winning 1999…
Farewell, chickens! You may know Moulin Rouge! The Musical is set to close the doors on its celebrated seven-year Broadway run on August 30th. But, as we all mourn its impending closing, did…
