“Human Things,” a new play penned by Joshua Owen and directed by Rory McGregor, is presently playing at The West End Theatre at St. Paul and St. Andrews UMC. The play is laced with hints of absurdity and existentialism, and at times is reminiscent of the weird theater produced decades ago, devoid of theatrical devices such as video projections…
“Disruption” a new play by Andrew Stein which had a short run in London in 2023 is making its New York premiere at the Pershing Square Signature Center, presented by Jack DePalma. Hersh Ellis directs the stellar veteran cast competently, with some minor distractions and “disruptions”. Scenic design by Zoë Hurwitz is sleek and confined, more retro tech than futuristic,…
Asaf and the members of the audience are the unwitting protagonists of Itamar Moses’s “The Ally” which is currently running at the Public’s Anspacher Theater. Asaf Sternheim (a well-meaning but uncommitted Josh Radnor) is Jewish, a writer, and an adjunct professor of writing at a prestigious American University in a struggling American city where his Korean American wife Gwen Kim…