When it comes to fruit from a poisoned tree, the biliously funny "Appropriate" displays it by the bushel. The young playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins dreams up a nasty extended family that h…
Death does strange things to people. And in familiar circumstances, people struggling with a death in the family will turn on each other in a heartbeat; siblings and relations will treat eac…
Before a show, I never read the program. I read the title, which in this case is Appropriate.  I like to experience a theatrical performance raw, without the parameters that som…
Gearing up for the second show of the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company's 34th season, Appropriate, written by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. Fitting into their season's theme, "America's Tell-Tale He…
Woolly Mammoth's "Appropriate" is anything but when you're thinking about material that's Âkosher for kids. The comic drama by native Washingtonian Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is one of those …
In Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' APPROPRIATE, the estranged members of the Lafayette clan have returned to Arkansas and their crumbling old plantation home to settle the accounts of their recently…
This Hot Shot is best appreciated by longtime Broadway fans: Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark title star Reeve Carney celebrated his birthday on April 24 at the Jekyll & Hyde Club in Times …
Producer Thomas Viertel revealed in an official statement We have had the rare and tremendous opportunity in the last several months to experience Flashdance - The Musical on the road. We kn…
The 2013-14 season of Victory Gardens Theater — the Tony Award-winning Chicago company devoted to new works, many from its own Playwrights Ensemble — will include the co-world-pr…
The centrality of the holiday to the childhood Weltanschauung is neatly encapsulated in the synthetic holiday jingle concocted for the musical by Mr. Pasek and Mr. Paul, which is remorseless…
Victory Gardens Theater announces the first play of its 2013-14 Season: the Co-World Premiere ofAppropriate by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, directed by Gary Griffin.  Appropr…
ITV's Appropriate Adult was the big winner at tonight's British Academy Television Awards, with its stars Emily Watson and Dominic West named best leading actress and actor respectively.
ITV drama Appropriate Adult has picked up the most nominations for this year's British Academy Television Awards, with its stars - Emily Watson and Dominic West - both receiving nods for the…
Twelve Angry (Men) has been a show we have been discussing as a group since our inception in 2003. Eight years later, we are happy to finally bring it to life on our beautiful Pico Playhou…
The "Colbert Report" host pays a visit to the Phillips de Pury & Company gallery to visit his portrait and subject the auction house chairman Simon de Pury to a tongue-in-cheek grilling.
