Home Truths: 3 Plays With a Sense of Place
A daughter’s grief memoir on a Wisconsin farm, an Ireland-set comedy with roles for a large Santa Cruz ensemble, and a mall drama set in Portland.
Category Archives: Previews
‘Between Two Knees’: Between Slaughter and Laughter
This raucous remix of Native American history by the 1491s, co-creators of ‘Reservation Dogs,’ is now onstage in NYC after a 6-year journey across the U.S.
‘Warrior Sisters of Wu’: Humor and Ferocity on the Eve of War
Damon Chua’s new play at Pan Asian Rep retells a portion of a Chinese epic that follows the badass icons Wan and Qing.
How Queer Black Church Energy Is ‘Delivered’T’
Jonathan Norton’s new play, opening soon in Dallas and Louisville, finds the comedy and pathos in usher board culture.
Twitter to Stage: The Road to ‘Highway Patrol’
Mined from the archives of Dana Delany’s social media is a new Goodman thriller from a creative team that includes Jen Silverman, Mike Donahue, and Dane Laffrey.
On the Street Where You Speak
In ‘La Broa” at Trinity Rep, based on oral histories from Rhode Island’s Latiné community, playwright Orlando Hernández is thinking locally and bilingually.
Everyone’s Invited to ‘Mrs. Krishnan’s Party’
The New Zealand-based Indian Ink Theatre Company brings immersive festivities to a number of U.S. theatres starting this month.
‘Thinking’ Small and Local
Keen Company’s roving production of Joan Didion’s mourning memoir makes a good fit for Long Wharf’s itinerant programming agenda.
Making Space for ‘Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress’
Children’s Theatre Company proudly debuts juliany taveras’s new stage adaptation of a book that has faced challenges and attacks in some schools.
Larissa FastHorse and Ty Defoe Make a Show ‘For the People’
Their new play for the Guthrie is a comedy, in large part because that’s what the Native community in the Twin Cities asked for.
