Friday, March 29,2013

“Look Homeward, Angel” by Ketti Frings

Directed by Austin Pendleton

First published in 1929, Thomas Wolfe’s semi-autobiographical magnum opus captured the sights, sounds and roiling emotions of life in the fictional Southern town of Altamont.

Tuesday, March 26,2013

“Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike”
by Christopher Durang

at Golden Theatre

You don’t have to like Anton Chekhov’s plays—or even know much about them—to thoroughly enjoy Christopher Durang’s “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike.”

Thursday, March 21,2013

“Saga”
by Kirjan Waage
& Gwendolyn Warnock

Directed by Gwendolyn Warnock
Co-directed by Kirjan Waage

The economists say that compared to the rest of the world, America’s financial state is not so bad. Especially, compared to the collapse of the Icelandic banking system, which is believed to have suffered the most loss by any country in economic history.

Wednesday, March 20,2013

“For Love”
by Laoisa Sexton

at Irish Repertory Theatre

Dirty Irish jokes and raucous laughter bring the Irish Repertory’s basement studio theater alive as three Irish women let the audience in on the sordid details of their love lives.

Wednesday, March 20,2013

“The Lying Lesson” by Craig Lucas

at The Linda Gross Theater

More than a decade after her fourth marriage failed, Bette Davis (Emmy-winner Carol Kane) returns to her hometown with the intention of purchasing the house of a former lover, seemingly in order to begin their romance again.

Wednesday, March 20,2013

“The Mound Builders” by Lanford Wilson

at Signature Theatre Company

Signature Theatre excavates Lanford Wilson’s Obie Award-winning “The Mound Builders,” first presented in 1975. In the small-town of Blue Shoals, Illinois, a group of archaeologists work tirelessly to unearth the ancient ruins of a Native American tribe...

Wednesday, March 20,2013

“BEARS” by Mark Rigney

at 59E59 Theater

“PLEASE DON’T FEED THE BEARS” warns a sign outside the New York premiere of Mark Rigney’s BEARS. But as it turns out, these bears are hungry for more than just food.

Thursday, March 14,2013

“Ann” by Holland Taylor

at the Vivian Beaumont Theater

Ann Richards was never supposed to become governor of Texas. Born in 1933, she was a mother and wife at a time when that was all women were expected to do.

Thursday, March 14,2013

“Hit the Wall” by Ike Holter

at Barrow Street Theatre

This semi-historical period piece is a riveting account of the brutal police raid at the still popular gay Greenwich Village bar, The Stonewall Inn, on June 28, 1969.

Thursday, March 14,2013

”The Flick“ by Annie Baker

at Playwrights Horizons

In a tiny independent movie house called ‘The Flick,’ the majority of the drama unfolds off-screen. Twenty-year-old film aficionado Avery (Aaron Clifton Moten) takes a job as a theater attendant...

Directed by Austin Pendleton

at Golden Theatre

Directed by Gwendolyn WarnockCo-directed by Kirjan Waage

at Irish Repertory Theatre

at The Linda Gross Theater

at Signature Theatre Company

at 59E59 Theater

at the Vivian Beaumont Theater

at Barrow Street Theatre

at Playwrights Horizons

Directed by Gwendolyn Warnock
Co-directed by Kirjan Waage