Doug Hughes

Off-Broadway Review: “Public Charge” at the Public’s Newman Theater (Through Sunday, April 12, 2026)

March 28, 2026 | Off-Broadway > | "Public Charge", Al Rodrigo, Armando Riesco, costume design by Haydee Zelideth, Dan Domingues, David Roberts, Deirdre Madigan, dialect coaching by Rosie Berrido, Doug Hughes, dramaturgy by Jack Phillips Moore, hair and wigs design by Earon Chew Nealey, Joan Marcus, John J. Concado, Julissa Reynoso, lighting design by Ben Stanton, Maggie Bofill, Marinda Anderson, Molly Foy, Nairoby Otero, Nate Betancourt, New York Theatre Reviews, original music by Carlos Henriquez, Paco Lozano, prop management by Samantha Llanes Gordon, Roxana Khan, scenic design by Arnulfo Maldonado, sound design and original music by David Van Tieghem, The Newman Theater, The Public Theater, Theatre Reviews, Theatre Reviews Limited, video design by Lucy MacKinnon, Yesenia Iglesias, Zabryna Guevara

At the center of Julissa Reynoso and Michael J. Chepiga’s “Public Charge,” now at the Public Theater, are two marginalized women who understood something the State Department establishment did not: that fifty years of failed policy toward Cuba needed to change. Julissa Reynoso (Zabryna Guevara), a Dominican immigrant and Obama campaign veteran, and Cheryl Mills (Marinda Anderson), Hillary Clinton’s Chief…

Off-Broadway Review: “Translations” at Irish Repertory Theatre (Closed Sunday, December 31, 2023)

Language and translation serve as powerful tropes for colonial ownership in Brian Friel’s “Translations” currently playing at Irish Repertory Company through Sunday. December 31, 2023. Headmaster Hugh (Sean McGinley) of the hedge-school in the townland of Baile Beag/Balleybeg the Irish-speaking community in County Donegal and his eldest son Manus (Owen Campbell) teach Irish, Latin and Greek to the local students….

Broadway Review: “JUNK” at the Vivian Beaumont in Lincoln Center Theater

The highly anticipated new play by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Ayad Akhtar entitled “JUNK” – referring to the bonds sold in the 1980s by Machiavellian inside traders – does tend to sacrifice intrigue for the sake of entertainment. The plot centers around the fictional junk bond king Robert Merkin (played with unscrupulous charisma by Steven Pasquale), as he manipulates his…