by Michael Bracken   There are worse places to find source material than the Bible. Just ask Craig Lucas, whose compelling but crowded I Was Most Alive with You, at Playwrights Horizons, takes the Book of Job, shakes it up, and propels it into the twenty-first century. Job...

    By Sandi Durell   There are a lot of mean girls around – not only in Ghana where this play takes place in the 1980s, but worldwide. And, there is another very different Mean Girls getting ready to launch on Broadway shortly that Tina Fey is working on. But, believe me,...

  By Beatrice Williams-Rude Seven Spots on the Sun is a searing work by Martin  Zimmerman that deals with the horrors of war and their aftermath, posing the question: justice or peace? It’s a weighty subject and this presentation harkens back to the Greeks both in style– the chorus...

    by Marilyn Lester   The term duat, in Egyptian mythology, signifies the mystic and sapient realm of the dead, presided over by Osiris and other gods of the ancient pantheon. Duat, the play, inhabits a far less grand realm. Playwright Daniel Alexander Jones, aka the...

      by Michael Bracken   It takes a special kind of man to boldly go where no man has gone before. And the men in Men on Boats at Playwrights Horizons are nothing if not special. For starters, they’re not men: all ten cast members of Jaclyn Backhaus’s tongue-in-cheek...