Linda Emond

Broadway Mini Review: “Becky Shaw” at Second Stage’s Helen Hayes Theatre (Through Sunday, June 14, 2026)

April 6, 2026 | Broadway > | Alden Ehrenreich, Becky Shaw, costume designer Kaye Voyce, David Roberts, Gina Gionfriddo, Helen Hayes Theatre, Lauren Patten, lighting designer Stacey Derosier, Linda Emond, Madeline Brewer, Marc J. Franklin, New York Theatre Reviews, Patrick Ball, scenic designer David Zinn, sound designer M.L. Dogg, Theatre Reviews, Theatre Reviews Limited, Trip Cullman

For six scenes, “Becky Shaw” unfolds in shadows – David Zinn’s dark grays, Stacey Derosier’s moody shafts of light illuminating secrets and lies. Then, in scene seven, everything floods with brightness: whites, creams, merciless clarity. It’s a design choice that mirrors Gina Gionfriddo’s thematic strategy – dragging uncomfortable truths into the light. “Unless you’re Gandhi or Jesus, you have a…

Off-Broadway Review: “A Bright Room Called Day” at The Public’s Anspacher Theater

Tony Kushner’s dystopian vision has a firm grounding in the history of the rise of fascism in Germany in the early 1930s and in the methodical and somewhat meteoric rise of Adolf Hitler to Chancellor of the German Reich. This vision is embodied in “A Bright Room Called Day” currently running at The Public’s Anspacher Theater. Mr. Kushner places himself…