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Keen Company’s new play wonders what ‘masculinity’ means

Washer/Dryer blends laughs, laundry, and cultural critique

Puffs, or: Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic & Magic falls somewhere between the two terms. Now playing at the Peoples Improv Theater, Cox’s play reimagines the seven Harry Potter books from the perspective of the Hufflepuffs, the gentle and caring house of students at the magical Hogwarts school. The Hufflepuffs are, at best, supporting cast members in the original na

Twenty minutes in, Robert O’Hara’s new play Barbecue seems to be about just that: a barbecue. You see a family gathered in a public park, grilling, drinking, barking at each other the way only family members can. Then all the rules change, and you realize you were wrong about what’s happening.

New Irish plays rely on firing our minds and imaginations

A playwright confronts how the race of the people around us changes how we behave

How writer-director Aya Ogawa brings video game technology to the theatre — At first glance, theatre and video games appear to represent polar opposite forms of entertainment. One is an irreproducible live event shared by many; the other a simulation of an experience directed entirely by its participants. Aya Ogawa’s new play sets out not […]

Some demons are imaginary and some of them are real, and during a climactic moment in Little Children Dream of God, they all engulf the stage. Jeff Augustin’s play, now in Roundabout’s Underground series, follows a Haitian immigrant named Sula, who has floated to Miami on a car tire in search of a better life. […]

Two days into rehearsals for Lift at 59E59, director John Marshall III got stuck in an elevator. Most people entombed in a metal box might feel alarmed, claustrophobic, or at the very least, concerned. Instead, Marshall was thrilled. “I think the people running the building probably thought I was crazy,” he says. “I’m like, ‘Don’t […]