There’s an adage — “Men/women you can’t live with them, you can’t live without them..” Then there are the ones that go, “Men/women you can’t live with them, you can’t shoot them, kill them, etc.” Eddie and May, the two main characters in this revival of Sam Shepard’s play, take both the original adage and…
Honestly, I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about first daughters, but evidently composer Michael John LaChiusa does. Although it might help to know the something about the presidencies of Nixon, Ford, Reagan and the Bushes, it’s not necessary to enjoy this play (which is four small plays rolled into one). None of the “vignettes”…
More that 100 years before Brandon Stanton created his blog “Humans of New York” there was Jacob Riis. Photojournalism didn’t exist, yet Riis felt compelled to tell the story of real New Yorkers — the nearly 75% of its inhabitants who lived in tenements in the late 1800s to early 1900’s.. He took to the…
In Ugly Lies the Bone Mamie Gummer* plays Jess, an army veteran who returns from a third tour of duty in Afghanistan with disfiguring burns. Jess becomes a participant in a virtual reality pain management therapy trial. In the virtual world she embarks on a journey to help her acclimate to the world she left…
To say too much about Robert O’Hara’s new play Barbecue would be a spoiler. But what I can say is that there’s a great and sizzling first act. Unfortunately it just fizzles out with a trite and silly Act Two. In this play black can be white, reality can be fantasy, and meth can be…
