costume design by Enver Chakartash

Off-Broadway Review: “Antigone (This Play I Read in High School)” at the Public Theater’s Barbaralee Theater (Extended through Saturday, April 4, 2026)

March 22, 2026 | Off-Broadway > | "Antigone (This Play I Read in High School)", Anna Ziegler, Barbaralee Theater, Calvin Leon Smith (Haemon), Caroline Englander, Celia Keenan-Bolger (Chorus), costume design by Enver Chakartash, Dave Quay (Cop 2/Palace Guard), David Roberts, hair wigs and makeup design by Robert Pickens and Katie Gell, Haley Wong (Ismene), includes Ethan Dubin (Cop 3/Achilles), Joan Marcus, Julie Congress and Andrew Wade, Katie Kreisler (Cop 1/Proprietor), Katie Young, Kelsey Rainwater, lighting design by Jen Schriever, Lillis Meeh, New York Theatre Reviews, Patrick Mulryan, Prop management by Claire M. Kavanah, scenic design by David Zinn, sound design and composition by Daniel Kluger, Susannah Perkins (Antigone), The Public Theater, Theatre Reviews, Theatre Reviews Limited, Tony Shalhoub (Creon), Tyne Rafaeli

Anna Ziegler’s “Antigone (This Play I Read in High School),” currently at the Public Theater’s Barbaralee Theater, is not the Sophocles tragedy I taught in high school—but then again, neither is James Ijames’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “Fat Ham” the Hamlet Shakespeare wrote. The difference is that Ijames trusts his reimagining enough to tell his story without constantly stopping to explain it….

Off-Broadway Review: “Ulysses” at the Public Theater’s Martinson Hall (Closed Sunday, March 1, 2026)

“Parsing Joyce: ERS’s ULYSSES Demonstrates Without Embodying” Good readers create images as they navigate dense text, constructing a personal vision of the world on the page. Elevator Repair Service’s production of James Joyce’s “Ulysses,” currently playing at the Public Theater’s Martinson Hall, offers the company’s own kaleidoscopic image of Joyce’s epic novel—a playful, fragmented encounter with one of modernism’s most…

Off-Broadway Review: “I Love You So Much I Could Die” at New York Theatre Workshop (Closed Saturday, March 9, 2024)

Microsoft’s Text to Speech Voice read’s Mona Pirnot’s script aloud (scored with sequences of punctuation to create pauses and silences) as the playwright sits with her back to the audience at a small desk adorned by her laptop and a small lamp. Pirnot’s non-fictional narrative is the personal yet “Everyman” story of loneliness, love, loss, death, bereavement, acceptance, confession, forgiveness,…