Or: Don’t Fence Me In As painful and queasy as plays about sex are, plays about money are even worse. There is the same discomfort the...

Or: What Kids Remember Amy Herzog has a genius for human speech. Other contemporary playwrights master mystery, drama, high language,...

Or: Tears in the batter, laughter in the flames. It is a remarkable thing that a student company, handed down year to year, should have...

Or: The Last Dance Of all the rich menagerie of modern dance steps the Trey McIntyre Project trotted out for us in their ten years, none...

Or: “Izzz Not Eeezeee Beeeingk Meeean” The last time I remember laughing out loud in a movie theater (that solemn, silent place) was Wes...

Or: Minerva in the Minutia The idea of a toy theater comes from the Victorian era, and like most things of age it can be described as...

Or: Like a Bike Out’a Hades I am much obliged to playwright Laura Jacqmin for her smart and resourceful welding together of the...

Its curious that playwright’s as a whole gravitate towards three universal themes: fornication, death and children. It’s curious but not...

Or: “There’s a place in this world for the angry young man” It is most fitting that the National Theater of England should choose to...

Or: The Age of Innocence “Watch Yourself” is a confounding phrase: part censure, part injunction, part warning, part distant, underdone...

Or: There, but for the grace of grace, goes my chair Passé by Sarah Edgar We begin in stately fashion: a harpsechord player and a...

She’s still there, when you walk in. Perched up in the corner of her desk, scribbling away. A vibrant little grasshopper preserved in...

Or: A Goat and her Boy. In her director’s note, Lindsay Amer takes great pains to lead us back to the age of childhood, the kingdoms of...

Or: Southern Comfort Not long ago, when I was still uncertain whether this play was a TYA show about anthropomorphic forest critters or a...

Or: The Weird and the Wonderful It is a great shame that we’ve lost touch of our an appreciation for, or at least acknowledgement of,...

Or: You say you want a revolution. There are no shackles like the ones that clamp around the heart. Links of iron can be broken, chains...

Or: Bearing All As ensemble member Avra Shapiro states in her dialog “Dear Eve”, Ensler’s “The V- Monologs” are a work shrouded in worry...

Or: Bring up the Bodies War hasn’t changed all that much since the times of the Euripides. The communications have gotten better and the...

Or: Though the Circle be Unbroken.... In his opening note on his remount of Rose and the Rine, director and co-writer Nathan Allen quotes...

Or: Pushing Buttons (not all of which work) In creating Buzzer, Tracy Scott Wilson has penned a superbly nuanced and thoughtful portrait...