“The Loved Ones” seems to open with a rather accessible setup. Gabby, a young Black college student, arrives at Nell’s house with suitcase and backpack in tow. Her arrival is unexpected and unannounced. She announces that she is in her seventh month of pregnancy and that Nell’s son Robin, who has been deceased for six months, is the father. Gabby…
Irish Repertory Theatre (Charlotte Moore, Artistic Director and Ciarán O’Reilly, Producing Artistic Director) announced today four productions for its 2026 Fall Season. Irish Rep’s 2026 Fall Season will kick off September 25 on the Francis J. Greenburger Mainstage with Eugene O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape directed by Ciarán O’Reilly (Ulster American), opening October 4 for a run through November 15. The…
“A Walk on the Moon” arrives at the Laura Pels Theatre promising a contemporary reimagining of Pamela Gray’s 1999 screenplay. Instead, it offers a production that settles for sentimentality—trapping its characters in dated romantic logic while asking audiences to celebrate a woman’s choice to abandon her own awakening. The result is a show that feels less like an Off-Broadway production…
“The Public Theater’s latest offering, “Girl, Interrupted,” transcends the conventional musical. It is based on the 1993 memoir by Susanna Kayson, chronicling her eighteen-month stay in a psychiatric hospital after a failed attempt at suicide. The book gathered widespread attention when made into a film in 1999, which starred Wynona Ryder and Angelina Jolie, winning several awards. This new incarnation…
This new play with music was commissioned by Vineyard Theatre and American Conservatory Theater, and Eisa Davis’s intimate portrait of four gifted teenage girls navigating a transformative summer in Berkeley deserves to be seen before it closes on Sunday, June 21. In the world of “||: Girls :||: Chance :||: Music :||,” directed by Pam MacKinnon, a free summer music…
John J. Caswell Jr.’s “Jerome” arrives at Playwrights Horizons this May as both a homecoming and a reckoning. The acclaimed playwright returns to the theater where his previous work “Wet Brain” earned critical acclaim, this time bringing a deeply personal story rooted in his own Arizona childhood—a play about two aging gay men living in isolation in a ghost town,…
“Othello,” for the most part, is considered to be one of Shakespeare’s best works, and there have been many attempts at all levels of theatre development to present the lengthy tragedy. Few succeed, many are just plain mediocre, and some miserably fail to convey the complexity of the characters, that are simply embodied by the intriguing script and poetic language….
Currently playing at the Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre at Pershing Square Signature Center, Heather Christian’s “Animal Wisdom” is a self-described “requiem within a requiem” that got terribly lost at the Mass’s Introit and never found its way back to the spiritual center it promised to disclose to the audience. Christian bills the piece as multiple things simultaneously: her life story,…
Veteran theatrical press agents Heath Schwartz and Michelle Farabaugh have acquired principal ownership of Boneau/Bryan-Brown, Inc., a publicity firm with over three decades of experience serving the theater industry, rebranding the company effective June 1, 2026 as Aperture Public Relations. Formed in 1991 by legendary press agents Chris Boneau and Adrian Bryan-Brown, who established the modern theatrical press agency model, Boneau/Bryan-Brown, Inc. has represented more than 400 theatrical productions on and…
The YMCA’s “Indian Princesses” program—rebranded in recent years as “Adventure Princesses”—bills itself as wholesome father-daughter bonding through Native-inspired activities. Playwright Eliana Theologides Rodriguez knows better. Her grandmother and great-grandmother were forced through assimilation schools designed to sever Indigenous families from their heritage, language, and identity. What the YMCA packages as “family fun” is cultural appropriation built on the machinery of…