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Off-Broadway Review: “Make Believe” at Second Stage’s Tony Kiser Theater

August 30, 2019 | kiser mail, LGBTQ+, Off-Broadway > | "Make Believe", Ben Stanton, Bess Wohl, Brad Heberlee, Bray Poor, Casey Hilton, David Zinn, Emilio Sosa, Harrison Fox, Joan Marcus, Justin Scribner, Kim Fischer, LGBTQ, Maren Heary, Michael Greif, Ryan Foust, Samantha Mathis, Second Stage Theater, Susannah Flood, Tony Kiser Theater

The nature-nurture psychological debate and the predestined-free will theological debate collide in Bess Wohl’s “Make Believe” currently running at Second Stage’s Tony Kiser Theater, resulting in the brave and somewhat disturbing exploration of the blurred boundaries between what is perceived to be real life and what is perceived to be make-believe. The playwright raises several enduring questions, including whether there…

Off-Broadway Review: “Dying City” at Second Stage Theater’s Tony Kiser Theater

June 10, 2019 | 2st dying city, kiser mail, LGBTQ+, Off-Broadway > | "Dying City", 9/11, Bray Poor, Christopher Shinn, Colin Woodell, Diane Laffrey, Iraq War, Joan Marcus, Kaye Voyce, Laura Smith, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Tyler Micoleau

With renewed concerns about an escalation of conflict in Iraq and the possibility of a new war initiative there, one would tend to believe that the revival of Christopher Shinn’s “Dying City,” currently playing at Second Stage’s Tony Kiser Theater, would provide new insights into the earlier Iraq War and its effects on the soldiers who served here and on…