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How Do You Write a Comedy About Climate Change?
By BILLY MCENTEE
Friday, February 22, 2019  •   Playwriting  •    0 comments Share This
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Madeleine George's Hurricane Diane inspires soul searching in between laughs --- To riff on Al Gore, Hurricane Diane is an inconvenient comedy. Madeleine George's show, currently running at New York Theatre Workshop in a co-production with WP Theater, confronts climate change via the funny bone. But how do you make a satire that investigates such...
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'Spaceman,' Take Two
By NED MOORE
Wednesday, February 13, 2019  •   Playwriting  •    0 comments Share This
Wed Feb 13, 2019  •   Playwriting  •    0 comments Share This
After having to abort the mission last year, a sci-fi show counts down to opening --- Making theatre is never easy, but the process has been especially arduous for the creators of Spaceman, a psychological thriller finally landing Off-Off Broadway after a yearlong delay. Set inside a life-size space module, Loading Dock Theatre's one-woman show chronicles...
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Is Porn Empowering or Degrading for Women?
By ALLISON CONSIDINE
Tuesday, February 12, 2019  •   Playwriting  •    0 comments Share This
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Inspired by a true story, Exposed explores female sexuality in the modern age --- At a time when students take out an average of $37,172 in loans to pay for college, it's no wonder young people are desperate to find ways to avoid such debilitating debt. Recognize Theatre's Exposed at MCS Theatre explores the journey of one such undergraduate, an enterprising...
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A New Home and a New Show for a Venerable Queens Theatre Company
By JOSE SOLÍS
Friday, February 08, 2019  •   Playwriting  •    0 comments Share This
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Astoria Performing Arts Center mounts its first production in its new space --- Last Labor Day weekend, as most New Yorkers basked in the last vestiges of summer, a Queens theatre company was saying goodbye to its decade-long home. The folks at Astoria Performing Arts Center (APAC) had known for months that their lease at the Good Shepherd United...
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Looking for a New Life at a Funeral Home
By JONATHAN MANDELL
Wednesday, February 06, 2019  •   Playwriting  •    0 comments Share This
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How City of No Illusions explores the connection between death and immigration --- In City of No Illusions, a young Syrian refugee named Saad takes a job in a Buffalo, NY funeral parlor run by two elderly sisters. As he makes his way around the coffins, he's shocked to come face-to-face with Agent Ramirez from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Saad...
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When's the Last Time You Saw Asian-American Southerners On Stage?
By JONATHAN MANDELL
Tuesday, January 29, 2019  •   Playwriting  •    0 comments Share This
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Leah Nanako Winkler on her new play God Said This --- Leah Nanako Winkler started writing God Said This while keeping her cancer-stricken mother company during chemotherapy sessions in Kentucky. "It just came out," the playwright recalls -- though not all at once. Each week Winkler traveled between the Bluegrass State where she grew up and her current...
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How Female Medieval Saints Inspired a New Dark Comedy
By REGINA ROBBINS
Thursday, January 24, 2019  •   Playwriting  •    0 comments Share This
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Jessica Dickey on her world-premiere play The Convent --- The residents of The Convent, Jessica Dickey's new dark comedy at A.R.T./New York Theatres, aren't your typical nuns. In fact, most of them aren't nuns at all, but 21st-century women who have come to a feminist retreat in rural France seeking a fresh start. Some are coping with grief; others...
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How Enslaved Women Helped Give Birth to Modern-Day Gynecology
By DIEP TRAN
Thursday, January 17, 2019  •   Playwriting  •    0 comments Share This
Thu Jan 17, 2019  •   Playwriting  •    0 comments Share This
A new play examines the complicated legacy of Dr. J. Marion Sims --- Naomi Lorrain always hears groans from the audience when her character, Philomena, undergoes a gynecological examination in Behind the Sheet, a new drama at Ensemble Studio Theatre. "I can hear them exhale and go 'ugh' -- especially a lot of the women," she says. "They cross their...
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