Helen Hayes

Broadway Review: “Cult of Love” at the Helen Hayes (Closed Sunday, February 2, 2025)

The title of Leslye Headland’s “Cult of Love” at the Helen Hayes demands attention. The Dahl family cult began in childhood: Diana (Shailene Woodley), Evie (Rebecca Henderson), Johnny (Christopher Sears), and Mark (Zachary Quinto) attended church faithfully with conservative Christian parents Ginny (Mare Cunningham) and Bill (David Rasche), vacationed annually at Big Meadows Lodge in Shenandoah National Park, never slept…

Off-Broadway Review: “Skin of our Teeth” at Theatre for New Audience’s Polonsky Shakespeare Center

March 3, 2017 | Off-Broadway, sanctuary city, you will die > | Arin Arbus, Brooklyn, Fredric March, Helen Hayes, Mary Martin, Polonsky Shakespeare Center, Pulitzer Prize, Skin of Our Teeth, Tallulah Bankhead, Theatre for New Audience, Thornton Wilder

If ever there was an allegorical play, this is it. Thornton Wilder’s “The Skin of Our Teeth” was written in 1942, won the Pulitzer Prize, had two apparently great productions on Broadway – starring the likes of Mary Martin, Tallulah Bankhead, Fredric March and Helen Hayes—then poorly received ones, and subsequently was deemed extremely difficult to pull off. Well, Theatre…