Susan Pourfar | Theatre Reviews Limited

Off-Broadway Review: “Mary Page Marlowe” at Second Stage’s Tony Kiser Theater

Dreams. Daydreams. The dreamers write the scripts casting characters from their lives and casting themselves as the protagonists. The dreamers, write, cast, act in, and direct these phantasmagoric and kaleidoscopic vignettes that are “performed” while they are nestled in REM sleep or daydreaming on public transportation or at work. “Mary Page Marlowe,” currently running at Second Stage’s Tony Kiser Theater,…

Off-Broadway Review: “Mary Jane” at New York Theatre Workshop”

October 6, 2017 | buried child, Off-Broadway > | "Mary Jane", Amy Herzog, Anne Kauffman, Brenda Wehle, Carrie Coon, Danaya Esperanza, Dave Bova, Emily Rebholz, J. Jared Janas, Japhy Weideman, Joan Marcus, Kathy Fabian, Laura Jellinek, Leah Gelpe, Lisa Chernoff, Liza Colón-Zayas, NYTW, Susan Pourfar

In Part One of Amy Herzog’s “Mary Jane,” currently playing at the New York Theatre Workshop, Mary Jane (Carrie Coon) is at home caring for her two-and-a-half-year-old son Alex. She shares that responsibility with several professional caregivers, including Sherry (played with compassionate expediency by Liza Colón-Zayas) and Donna, the incompetent nurse the audience never sees. Alex, born at twenty-five weeks…