Michele Pawk

Off-Broadway Review: “Heroes of the Fourth Turning” at Playwrights Horizons Mainstage Theater

October 25, 2019 | laura beth, Off-Broadway, what the constitution > | "Heroes of the Fourth Turning", Danya Taymor, Isabella Byrd, J. David Brimmer, Jeb Kreager, Jenny Kennedy, Joan Marcus, John Zdrojeski, Julia McDermott, Justin Ellington, Laura Jellinek, Michele Pawk, Playwrights Horizons, Sarafina Bush, Will Arbery, Zoë Winters

Three Gen Y Conservative Christians gather at Justin’s (a thoughtful and broken Jeb Kraeger) backyard in Lander, Wyoming to celebrate Generation X Gina’s (a confident and willful Michelle Pawk) inauguration as president of Transfiguration College of Wyoming. These “heroes” are preparing for a battle of Armageddon-like proportions. They do not simply disagree with those infidels on the left: they despise…

Off-Broadway Review: “Picnic and Come Back, Little Sheba: William Inge in Repertory” at Transport Group Theatre Company at the Gym at Judson

“Picnic and Come Back, Little Sheba: William Inge in Repertory” at Transport Group Theatre Company at the Gym at Judson leaves one longing for more William Inge and more Transport Group – perhaps a trifecta that includes the 1955 “Bus Stop.” Inge’s themes of deep angst, “small ambition,” the search for identity and purpose, lost (or abandoned) youth, choices and…