I discuss the process of writing “From Aphra Behn to Fun Home: A Cultural History of Feminist Theater” and how the current Broadway shutdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic has inspired ref…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 10:27AMBroadwayRadio Special: Interview with Carey Purcell, Author of “From Aphra Behn to Fun Home: A Cultural History of Feminist Theatre”
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 02:55PMSometimes art imitates life, and sometimes life imitates art. And sometimes the two combine in an eerily prescient performance that both inspires and unsettles. Such is the case with Bleedin…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 08:51AMOriginally published on TheaterMania View this story online Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Bram Stoker’s Dracula share much in common. Their titles are often uttered in the same bre…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 07:47PMOriginally published on TDF Stages View this story online Harriet Tubman, Nellie Bly and Molly Brown are just a handful of the sheroes being celebrated on New York stages — When I was as…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 07:35PMThe fires of rage in Medea burn hot, but in Simon Stone’s new adaptation, all we see are the ashes. Stone’s modern-day reworking of Euripides’ familial tragedy about an enraged woman …
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 01:05PM“A great nose may be an index of a great soul,” Edmund Rostand wrote in Cyrano de Bergerac. When considering the latest adaptation of this popular tale of love and tragedy, which pointed…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 12:53PM“Breathe everybody,” Isaac Mizrah urged the audience before beginning the day’s second performance of Peter and the Wolf. The intimate in-house theater proved to be a fitting venue f…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 03:54PMOriginally published on TDF Stages View this story online María Irene Fornés’ Fefu and Her Friends is finally being revived after four-plus decades — Like many admirers of María Ir…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 10:23PMOriginally published on TDF Stages View this story online The lauded theatre company puts its singular stamp on the Arthur Miller classic — Even before it begins, Bedlam’s take on Arth…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 04:10PMOriginally published on Theatermania View this story online Calling Sylvia Khoury busy is an understatement. The fourth-year medical student is also a playwright with two productions openi…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 10:41AMJazz is a famously unstructured form of music. Often improvised, and unpredictable, it doesn’t matter if there is no clear ending to the song: the mere experience of listening is thrilling…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 03:39PMOriginally published on Dramatics.org View this story online No one can accuse Reneé Rapp of method acting. The emerging star of Broadway’s Mean Girls, who brings the scheming Queen Bee …
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 03:45PMOriginally published on Electric Literature View this story online One evening in late July, I huddled in a Manhattan basement, battling radioactive creatures and trying to stay alive in a p…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 08:01AMOriginally published on TDF Stages View this story online Playwright Lily Houghton and director Kylie M. Brown discuss their world-premiere collaboration — Artists often channel their gr…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 11:05AM“A wives’ world,” the women sing as they triumphantly dance across the stage. “. . . and the male gaze will be cast away somewhere up among the stars . . .” With its empowered decl…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 02:54PMOriginally published on TDF Stage View this story online The actor on reprising his role as Lonny in Rock of Ages Mitchell Jarvis credits Shakespeare with inspiring him to revisit his bes…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 01:22PMWinter Miller on the unexpected trajectory of her world-premiere play No One Is Forgotten — For years Winter Miller has been telling her playwriting students to “follow your yes,” e…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 09:11PMOriginally published on Electric Literature View this story online The road to hell is a lengthy passage in Hadestown, but the journey of Anais’ Mitchell’s re-envisioning of ancient Gr…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 05:04PM“That felt good,” this critic thought after attending a performance of Hillary and Clinton, Lucas Hnath’s topical new play in performances at the Golden Theatre. Almost three years …
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 02:44PMThe crushing of youthful ideals has fueled many a drama, both onstage and off. But few have accomplished this as powerfully, or as devastatingly, as Arthur Miller in his 1947 drama All My So…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 11:36AMEven the best garnishes can’t save a badly-baked treat. Thus is the case of Benny and Joon, the latest movie-to-musical adaptation to take the stage. This pleasantly pleasing but unfulfill…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 06:03PMAs a teenager, playwright and performer Heidi Schreck visited many American Legion Halls, giving speeches on the Constitution that “drew a personal connection between your own life and the…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 08:27PMOriginally published at TDF Stages View this story online Halley Feiffer and Trip Cullman discuss collaborating on The Pain of My Belligerence at Playwrights Horizons — “We joke tha…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 11:16AMOriginally published in TDF Stages View this story online Where to see female artists and women’s stories on stage — According to the Broadway League, women make up 66% of Broadway au…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 12:27AMOriginally published on TDF Stages View this story online A new musical comedy celebrates an unfairly maligned genre Fans of so-called chick flicks — cinematic stories centering on romance…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 05:26PMOriginally published in TDF Stages View this story online The co-creator of Next to Normal debuts Superhero Off-Broadway — Superhero at Second Stage Theatre is a homecoming for Tom Ki…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 09:20AMOriginally published in TDF Stages View this story online Marin Ireland is all fired up in Abby Rosebrock’s Blue Ridge In 2015, Abby Rosebrock‘s mentor said he was worried ab…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 03:46PMIt was the phrase “unsung heroes” that captured Cara Reichel’s attention. The hour-long PBS documentary spotlighting women in the military only devoted about two minutes to the Hello G…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 11:28AMOriginally published in American Theatre Magazine View this story online “I’m such a nerd,” laughs Robert Serrell, executive director of the Barrow Group Theatre Company and School,…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 10:06AMOriginally published in American Theatre magazine View this story online Adam Noble had been teaching an advanced scene study class for just one month when he faced a startling encounter wit…
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