plays
‘Memnon’: Harlem comes to Malibu (ancient Black Lives Matter too)
September 12, 2024The approximately 80-minute one-act play can be a bit talky with lengthy monologues or soliloquies, although I imagine this may be how some Greek dramas were presented in those ancient amphitheaters under the starry Grecian skies...
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Two Civil War plays, two civil wars: ‘TH IR DS’ and ‘Civility of Albert Cashier’
September 11, 2024What if the South had won the Civil War?
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‘God Will Do the Rest’ introduces an idiosyncratic Filipino American immigrant family
September 11, 2024From his clever and wise writing in last year’s The Bottoming Process, I could tell Nicholas Pilapil would be one playwright to watch.
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‘Keely and Du’ takes on Christian nationalism, reproductive rights and kidnapping
August 8, 2024Jane Martin’s 1993 play Keely and Du was a finalist for the 1994 Pulitzer Prize, and years later, in 2018, was turned into a feature film.
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‘The Spy Who Went into Rehab’: A dramatic spoof on a film fantasy
July 23, 2024Gregg Ostrin has taken this potent potion and cannily shaken and stirred it with the notion and concoction of putting this vodka martini-swilling smoker, gambler, compulsive seducer, and multiple killer in a rehabilitation center.
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