Caryl Churchill is a remarkable playwright. She's smart and funny and political and personal and humane and moving and very very enterta...

It is difficult to review Reverse Transcription , an evening of plays covering AIDS and covid, as theatre. The first piece, Robert Chesley...

The Potomac Theatre Project's recent streaming play, Standing on the Edge of Time , consists largely of people talking--alone, in pairs,...

In the past couple of decades, Caryl Churchill has perfected the oblique and concentrated one-act play, somehow providing the intellectual c...

I was going to do a "best-of" for 2019 plus a "looking forward" for 2020, when I realized that their focus would be much...

Once upon a time, not all that long ago, I watched certain political plays with a sense of distance, deeply sympathetic to the characters an...

Sometimes the plot in Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoots Macbeth  by Tom Stoppard, first produced in 1979, runs too close to home. But some backgro...

Tom Stoppard's Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth  plays with language and slapstick, presents fascinating mini-versions of two of ...

No theatre is offering more bang for your buck--or return on your time--than PTP/NYC with their evening of one acts:  The Possibilities , by...

It comes as no surprise that Bertolt Brecht's most incisive and cynical writings are painfully timely, right here, right now. The PTP/NY...

Brecht on Brecht takes the work of dramatist Bertolt Brecht, a polarizing post-war Germany writer whose work criticized anti-Semitism and f...