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With Off-Broadway's Make Believe"and the upcoming Broadway Grand Horizons"Wohl challenges the status quo.
Despite its promising premise, Bess Wohl's script is yet another wan exercise in genial domestic comedy.
Despite the title, Bess Wohl's "Small Mouth Sounds" is fundamentally a play about silence. To experience the work at Chicago's A Red Orchid Theatre, where the show opened this past weekend, …
Silence speaks where words fail in this Chicago premiere from Bess Wohl at A Red Orchid Theatre.
In case you haven't heard, there's a disembodied voice floating above the seats at the Round House Theatre this month. The voice belongs to Timothy Douglas, an award-winning director whose w…
Ancient Chinese philosopher Lao Tsu once said, “Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.” Six strangers take a journey towards both in the delightful dramedy …
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The last place you'd think to go for a little peace and quiet is the theater. But that's what happens in Round House Theatre's production of Bess Wohl's 2015 off-Broadway hit, Small Mouth So…
“You have everything you need within you to be human,” says an unseen guru on the god mic. He is speaking in a sonorous voice to six seekers who now sit rapt in a row facing us t…
The lineup also includes New England premieres of works by Stephen Adly Guirgis and Jocelyn Bioh.
Philadelphia Theatre Company imports Bess Wohl's 'Small Mouth Sounds,' which may say more about PTC than they intended. Mark Cofta reviews.
Bess Wohl's Obie Award-winning "Small Mouth Sounds," through April 1 at the Philadelphia Theatre Company, follows six fugitives from city life as they go to a silent retreat. We watch the fr…
Philadelphia Theatre Company presents the Ars Nova production of the Obie Award winning play Small Mouth Sounds, written by Bess Wohl and directed by Tony nominee Rachel Chavkin Natasha Pier…
Small Mouth Sounds is punctuated with grunts, moans, stamps, slaps, sighs, whimpers and snores, but other than one monologue and a disembodied voiceover from an unseen "teacher," fewer words…
The Broad Stage, Santa Monica, is staging a production of Bess Wohl's "Small Mouth Sounds," a comedy with satiric bite directed by Rachel Chavkin. The play is set in a silent retreat an…
Small Mouth Sounds  Reviewed by Terry Morgan The Eli & Edythe Broad Stage Through Jan. 28 RECOMMENDED  If film is primarily a visual medium, then theatre is mainly…
YOU LEAVE SEEKING PEACE AND A PLOT When a play comes along that is entirely different from any play that has preceded it, especially in our era of over-informative white noise and copycattin…
Playwright Bess Wohl, who trained as an actor at the Yale School of Drama, has written a play that asks actors to do more than speak the speech trippingly on the tongue, as Hamlet advised th…
Bess Wohl Mocks Mindfulness Movement, with Love by Barry David Horwitz In "Small Mouth Sounds" by Bess Wohl, we feel the clash of East and West from the start. When six would-be meditators g…
The production stops at San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater October 11-December 10.
American Conservatory Theater A.C.T. continues its 2017-18 season with Bess Wohl's fresh, perceptive comedy Small Mouth Sounds October 11-December 10, 2017. Press nights for Small Mouth Sou…
How sound designer Stowe Nelson filled the silence in a play that had almost no dialogue.