Mia Pak

Off-Broadway Review: “Girl, Interrupted” at the Public’s Martinson Hall (Through Sunday, July 12, 2026)

“The Public Theater’s latest offering, “Girl, Interrupted,” transcends the conventional musical. It is based on the 1993 memoir by Susanna Kayson, chronicling her eighteen-month stay in a psychiatric hospital after a failed attempt at suicide. The book gathered widespread attention when made into a film in 1999, which starred Wynona Ryder and Angelina Jolie, winning several awards. This new incarnation…

Off-Broadway Review: “Three Houses” at Signature Theatre’s Linney Theatre (Closed on Sunday, June 9, 2024)

Dave Malloy’s “Three Houses currently running at Signature Theatre’s Linney Theater is a retelling/interpretation of the classic fairy tales “The Three Little Pigs” and “Red Riding Hood” (among other cautionary folklore narratives) in which The Big Bad Wolf appears. Stand-ins for Little Red Riding Hood and those Three Little Pigs are Susan (a manic and hedonistic Margo Seibert), Sadie (a…