sound design by Bray Poor

Off-Broadway Review: “The Receptionist” at The Irene Diamond Stage at The Pershing Square Signature Center (Through Sunday, June 7, 2026)

May 19, 2026 | Off-Broadway > | "The Receptionist", Adam Bock, costume design by Enver Chakartash, David Roberts, Irene Diamond Stage, Joan Marcus, Katie Finneran (Beverly Wilkins), Lighting design by Stacey Derosier, Mallori Johnson (Lorraine Taylor), Nael Nacer (Edward Raymond), New York Theatre Reviews, Pershing Square Signature Center, Sarah Benson, Scenic Design by dots, sound design by Bray Poor, Theatre Reviews, Theatre Reviews Limited, Will Pullen (Martin Dart)

Adam Bock’s “The Receptionist” arrived in 2007 as a searing response to the Bush administration’s torture memos and the Abu Ghraib revelations. The play asked audiences to consider Hannah Arendt’s concept of the “banality of evil”—how ordinary people enable extraordinary harm through the simple machinery of their daily work. Beverly answers phones, brews coffee, and gossips with her colleague Lorraine…

Off-Broadway Review: “The Ally” at the Public’s Anspacher Theater (Closed Sunday, March 24, 2024)

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…