Bluebird Theatre Company is pleased to announce the 2026 run of Significant Contacts, written by Amanda Stamm and directed by Sean Szak Prasso. The production will play a limited engagement July 13–16, 2026 at The Makers’ Space, located at 281 N. 7th Street in Brooklyn. Performances begin at 7:30 PM. The cast of Significant Contacts will feature Amanda Stamm as…
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,…
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,…
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…
Adam Bock’s “The Receptionist” arrived in 2007 as a searing response to the Bush administration’s torture memos and the Abu Ghraib revelations. The play asked audiences to consider Hannah Arendt’s concept of the “banality of evil”—how ordinary people enable extraordinary harm through the simple machinery of their daily work. Beverly answers phones, brews coffee, and gossips with her colleague Lorraine…
Situational ethics and moral ambiguity take center stage in “KENREX,” the true crime thriller currently running at the Lucille Lortel Theatre. On July 10, 1981, in Skidmore, Missouri (population 400), a town bully was shot to death in broad daylight. Sixty witnesses watched it happen. Not one would identify the killer. Jack Holden’s astonishing solo performance—playing prosecutor David Baird, Ken…
Tony Award winner Tonya Pinkins joins the cast of La Cage Aux Folles (running June 17 – 28, 2026) as Jacqueline, along with Peter Francis James as Edouard, and Rachel Webb as Anne. They join previously announced Emmy Award winner Wayne Brady (Georges), Emmy, Grammy, and Tony winner Billy Porter (Albin), Encores! alum Alaman Diadhiou (Jean-Michel), James Jackson Jr. (Jacob),…
The prologue to “The Lost Boys,” the new musical adaptation of the 1987 Warner Bros. film now at the Palace Theatre, immediately signals Michael Arden’s dark ambitions for this material. A police officer investigates the abandoned Coronado Ironworks factory by flashlight, interrupted by Ronald Reagan’s voice on a flickering television extolling “the strength and integrity of the family.” Before the…
Joe Turner was real. Brother of the Tennessee Governor, he would swoop down on Black men in the early 1900s – gambling, preaching, just walking down the road – and keep them enslaved on chain gangs for seven years. “They tell me Joe Turner’s come and gone / Got my man and gone” – the women sang it, a blues…