Molly Griggs

Broadway Review: “John Proctor is the Villain” at the Booth Theatre (Extended through Sunday, July 6, 2025)

May 4, 2025 | liberation, Off-Broadway > | "John Proctor is the Villain", Amalia Yoo, Booth Theatre, costume design by Sarah Laux, Danya Taymor, David Roberts, dramaturgy by Lauren Halvorsen, Fina Strazza, Fiona Robberson, Gabriel Ebert, Garrett Young, Hagan Oliveras, hair & makeup design by J. Jared Janas, intimacy coordination by Ann James, Julieta Cervantes, Kimberly Belflower, lighting design by Natasha Katz, Maggie Kuntz, Molly Griggs, Morgan Scott, movement direction by Tilly Evans-Krueger, New York Theatre Reviews, Nihar Duvvuri, Noah Pacht, production stage management by Kamra A. Jacobs, projection design by Hannah Wasileski, Sadie Sink, scenography by AMP featuring Teresa L. Williams, Shian Tomlinson, sound design and original composition by Palmer Hefferan, Taylor Williams, Theatre Reviews, Theatre Reviews Limited, Victoria Yoo, voice text and dialect coaching by Gigi Buffington

The “Match” in Kimberly Belflower’s thoughtful new play “John Proctor is the Villain,” currently playing at the Booth Theatre, is between the heavyweight team “Toxic Masculinity” and the underdogs “The Feminist Club.” The match takes place in Mr. Carter Smith’s (a far-too-transparent Gabriel Ebert) classroom “during spring semester, junior year, 2018 at Helen County High, the only high school in…

Off-Broadway Review: “Nomad Motel” at Atlantic Theater Company Stage 2

June 12, 2019 | Off-Broadway > | "Nomad Motel", Ahron R. Foster, Andrew Pang, Carla Ching, Christopher Larkin, Ed Sylvanus Iskandar, Emily Gardner Xu Hall, Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew, Joy Lanceta Coronel, Loren Shaw, Margaret Dunn, Molly Griggs, Ryan-James Hatanaka, Samantha Mathis, Stephanie Yankwitt, TBD Casting, Yu-Hsuan Chen

With a nod (intentional/unintentional) to the genre of disillusioned youth represented by Kenneth Lonergan’s 1996 “This Is Our Youth,” Carla Ching’s “Nomad Motel” currently running at Atlantic Theater Company Stage 2 dives headlong into the lives of a triangle of vagabond California youth yearning to belatedly separate and individuate from adults who have been less than successful in providing safe…