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Theatre News: Outer Critics Circle Awards Announce Honors for the 2019-2020 Broadway & Off-Broadway Season

May 11, 2020 | a strange loop, adam honore, Broadway, greater clements, News, Off-Broadway, pond theatre company, sea wall, soft power, tim j ryan off broadway >

The Outer Critics Circle (OCC), the official organization of writers on New York theatre for out-of-town newspapers and national publications, present the recipients of this year’s special honors for the 2019-2020 Broadway and Off-Broadway season. Past OCC Award honorees Kristin Chenoweth, Bryan Cranston, Patti LuPone, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Patrick Stewart, announced this season’s honorees by video feed today, Monday May 11, 2020. In light of the current and unprecedented period…

Off-Broadway Review: “A Strange Loop” at Playwrights Horizons

Last season, two off-Broadway plays – “Daddy” and “Slave Play” (both by Jeremy O. Harris) – highlighted significant issues about the self-identity of young black gay and queer men and raised rich and enduring questions about the role of family, friends, culture, and “indifferent yet fetishizing white gays” in that process of discovery. This season, Michael R. Jackson’s original musical…

Off-Off-Broadway Review: “Scratching” at FringeNYC 2016 at the Player’s Theatre

August 17, 2016 | a strange loop, NY International Fringe, Off-Off-Broadway > | Fringe NYC 2016, The Player's Theatre

In Britton Buttrill’s “Scratching,” four characters who seem to have no interest in “climbing up and scratching” their ways to “start something new” appear stuck in a Sisyphean loop with no hope of purifying their karma. Estranged brothers Christian (Karsten Otto) and Adrian (Tyler Gardella) spent their early years watching their abusive father beat their collusive mother. Christian left their…