by Carol Rocamora “This is a story of kings, or what passes for kings these days…” So goes the opening line of Junk, Ayad Akhtar’s riveting morality tale of money and greed and American values in the 1980s. And who might these royals be, you ask? Why, none other than...
Ayad Akhtar’s...
Video Interviews: Sandi Durell Photos: Maya Werner Cast and guests gathered after the opening night of Ayad Akhtar’s illuminating play Junk at Tavern on the Green for an evening of celebration. On the scene were Steven Pasquale, Rick Holmes, Henry Stram, Michael Siberry,...
More Should Be Less: The Moors
by Samuel L. Leiter Long, quiet, moody stretches are punctured by pockets of laughter in the Playwrights Realm’s production of The Moors, emerging playwright Jen Silverman’s surrealistic, feminist approach to mid-19th-century, Brontë-esque life on the bleak...
Awake and Sing
by Susan Hasho The National Asian American Theatre Company kicks off its 25th Season in residency at The Public Theater with the Clifford Odets’ drama Awake and Sing. Awake and Sing is a play about the Bergers, a lower middle class, three-generation Jewish family living in a...
