Oliver Butler

Broadway News: “What the Constitution Means to Me” Comes to Broadway at the Helen Hayes Theater

January 14, 2019 | Broadway, hadestown, hamlet, News, what the constitution > | “What the Constitution Means to Me”, Clubbed Thumb, Heidi Schreck, Helen Hayes Theater, Jen Schriever, Michael Krass, Mike Iveson, New York Theatre Workshop, Oliver Butler, Rachel Hauck, Rosdely Ciprian, Sinan Zafar, Thursday Williams, True Love

The Clubbed Thumb, True Love, and New York Theatre Workshop production of What the Constitution Means to Me will come to Broadway this spring for a 12-week limited engagement, beginning performances at the Helen Hayes Theater (240 W 44th Street, New York, NY) on March 14, 2019, with opening night scheduled for March 31. Heidi Schreck’s timely and galvanizing play, directed by Oliver Butler, became a sensation off-Broadway…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Thom Pain (based on nothing)” at The Pershing Square Signature Center’s Irene Diamond Stage

In this revival of “Thom Pain (based on nothing)” at The Pershing Square Signature Center’s Irene Diamond Stage, Will Eno steps over, under, and in between the resting places – and the writing desks – of the literary canon’s most prominent surrealist writers of the past and present. Eno seems to stop there to chat, listen, tremble (who wouldn’t), and…

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Off-Broadway Review: “What the Constitution Means to Me” Reopened at The Greenwich House Theater

After greeting the audience at New York Theatre Workshop, playwright Heidi Schreck introduces her play “What the Constitution Means to Me” as follows: “When I was 15 years old, I travelled the country giving speeches about the Constitution at American Legion halls for prize money. This was a scheme invented by my mom, who was a debate coach, to help…

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Off-Broadway Review: “The Amateurs” at Vineyard Theatre

Whether medieval or modern, no plague is comfortable. The first part of “The Amateurs,” currently playing at Vineyard Theatre, is uncomfortable in a different way and the audience wonders, “Can this play be as amateurish as it appears. What is the Vineyard thinking?” As it turns out, the iconic Off-Broadway theatre is thinking outside-the-box and out with the fourth wall,…

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Off-Broadway Review: “The Light Years” at Playwrights Horizons

March 16, 2017 | Off-Broadway, the visitor, visitor > | Aya Cash, Brian Lee Huynh, Erik Lochtefeld, Graydon Peter Yosowitz, Hannan Bos, Ken Barnett, Light Years, Oliver Butler, Paul Thureen, Playwrights Horizons, Rocco Sisto, The Debate Society

“You are not simply an electrician, you are illuminating the world!” claims one of the six characters in “The Light Years,” a pleasant, but less than fulfilling concoction now playing at Playwrights Horizons. Produced by a company called the Debate Society – which recreates slices of Americana – it focuses on two Chicago world fairs, exactly forty years apart. It…

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