A DEAL A new play by Zhu Yi, directed by John Giampietro Part of EST/Youngblood’s BLOODWORKS series Part of Ibsen International’s “New Text – New Stage II” Project An Ivy League degree in art and an apartment in Manhattan – Like… Read More ›
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Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Junk; Illyria; After the Blast
Ayad Akhtar returns to Lincoln Center Theater with his new play, JUNK. Set in the high-flying, risk-seeking, teetering financial world of the 1980s and inspired by the real junk bond kings of the day, this riveting story shows us from the inside… Read More ›
Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Knives, Hens, Homeless
Knives In Hens Written by David Harrower Directed by Lies Pauwels In a pre-industrial landscape, an unsettling and threatening love triangle emerges between the young woman, the ploughman and the hated miller. As the young woman journeys from ignorance to… Read More ›
Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Stage Rights and Wrongs
Just a couple of the plays reviewed this week by Michele: Lonely Planet is a two-character play by Steven Dietz. It tells the story of Jody and Carl, two gay men who live in an unnamed American city. It was written during the midst… Read More ›
Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Theater or Therapy, or Both
I of the Storm, Tiny Beautiful Things, Mary Jane are reviewed this week.
Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: “The Treasurer” and Theater Chat
The Treasurer OFF-BROADWAY PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS 416 W 42ND ST SYNOPSIS: Ida Armstrong is broke, lonely, and fading fast. And she’s spending all of her children’s money, forcing her son to assume the unwanted role of The Treasurer: an arrangement that becomes… Read More ›
Stage Right…Or Not With Michele Willens-New York Goes Hollywood
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center of New York City September 5 – October 8, 2017 Gil Cates Theater Written by Halley Feiffer Directed by Trip Cullman Featuring Halley Feiffer, Jason… Read More ›