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Saturday, June 2, 2018

Review of ‘Three Tall Women’ by Emily Gawlak

Long before Nas rapped the line, “Life’s a bitch and then you die,” Edward Albee percolated on similar sentiments, resulting in his Pulitzer Prize winning work Three Tall Women, which …

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Monday, May 28, 2018

Review of ‘Dance Nation’ by Emily Gawlak

As a former 13 year old girl myself, I was struck by “Dance Nation,” Clare Barron’s brash, bittersweet ode to the brief and awkward period of life that tends to have a profound impact …

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Tuesday, April 3, 2018

Review of ‘Angels in America’ by Emily Gawlak

Tony Kushner’s two-part, Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes is an ordeal. A play to be wrestled with. It is funny, disturbing, thril…

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Tuesday, March 6, 2018

Review: The Zippy Black Comedy ‘Stiff’ Pokes Fun at NYC Theater by Emily Gawlak

What’s fate without a little push? Certainly nowhere near as a funny as Stiff, Dallas playwright Jeff Swearingen’s zippy, big-hearted black comedy, now onstage at Manhattan’s TBG Theat…

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Sunday, February 4, 2018

Review: He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box by Emily Gawlak

After nearly a decade away, Adrienne Kennedy reasserts herself as a singular, seminal voice in the American theatre with He Brought Her Heart Back, now onstage at Polonsky Shakespeare Center…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 06:44PM
Thursday, December 21, 2017

Becoming ‘The Dead,’ An Interview with James Russell by Emily Gawlak

What could be more festive than a Christmas feast among the dead? In “The Dead,” the concluding tale in James Joyce’s 1914 short story collection, Dubliners, the seminal modernist pain…

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Friday, December 15, 2017

Review: SpongeBob Squarepants the Broadway Musical by Emily Gawlak

Before we begin our scheduled programming — a review of SpongeBob Squarepants The Musical, now onstage at Broadway’s Palace Theatre for its New York City premiere — pardon me a very br…

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Sunday, December 10, 2017

Review: Bright Colors and Bold Patterns by Emily Gawlak

The highs are high and the lows are low, but what else is to be expected on the coke-fueled gay wedding weekend in Palm Springs? At the risk of being self-deprecating, Bright Colors and Bold…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 10:31PM
Monday, December 4, 2017

Review: The Parisian Woman by Emily Gawlak

Beau Willimon, the writer and four-season showrunner of Netflix’s House of Cards, brings his signature brand of dark humor to a new politically-minded show, The Parisian Woman, just beginn…

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Monday, November 27, 2017

Review: Harry Clarke by Emily Gawlak

An Edward Hopper painting I couldn’t quite place stuck in my mind when I watched David Cale’s new, one-man play, Harry Clarke — the first show of The Vineyard Theatre’s 35th Anniver…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:18PM
Thursday, October 19, 2017

Review: Elevator Repair Service’s ‘Measure for Measure’ by Emily Gawlak

For their first foray into Shakespeare, Elevator Repair Service, New York’s stalwarts of experimental theatre, tackle Measure for Measure at the Public Theatre. ERS delivers a screwball,…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:19PM
Thursday, October 12, 2017

Interview: Susan Pourfar on Being Part of Amy Herzog’s ‘Mary Jane’ at NYTW by Emily Gawlak

Perhaps one mark of a great play is that it transforms not only the audience, but its actors as well. Only a few months after its world premiere at Yale Rep, Mary Jane, a collaboration betw…

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Saturday, September 30, 2017

Interview: Max Posner on Turning Family Secrets into “The Treasurer” by Emily Gawlak

It’s tempting to want to distance yourself from the main character of Max Posner’s new play, The Treasurer. Referred to only as the Son, he’s a hardworking geologist, a loving husband,…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:30PM
Thursday, September 14, 2017

Off to Neverland: An Interview With Director Les Waters by Emily Gawlak

Though director and educator Les Waters hails from across the pond, he’s made quite a splash in the American theatre scene in the past several decades, bouncing from the west coast — whe…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 03:27PM
Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Review: The Whirligig by Emily Gawlak

From drunken fools to mistaken identities, there’s something Shakespearean about Hamish Linklater’s new play, The Whirligig, presented by the New Group at the Pershing Square Sig…

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Monday, May 1, 2017

Review: The Little Foxes by Emily Gawlak

Now through its new, extended close of July 2, the Manhattan Theatre Club mounts the fifth Broadway production of Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. …

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Review: Indecent by Emily Gawlak

In advance of the April 18 premiere of Indecent at Broadway’s Cort Theater, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel spoke to the New York Times about her long-overdue debut on the Gr…

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Thursday, March 23, 2017

Review: Home/Sick by Emily Gawlak

“Today, when the foundations of our democracy are under assault, we want to reconsider the promise and peril of radical activism and dissent.” Taking note of the political climat…

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Tuesday, March 7, 2017

Review: Wakey, Wakey by Emily Gawlak

Signature Theatre’s world premiere production of Wakey, Wakey, written and directed by Will Eno, is an overwhelmingly joyous, moving, and unpredictable treatise on, well, death. Michael Em…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 10:13AM
Thursday, July 14, 2016

Interview: Diana Oh Bares it All for the Final Installation of {my lingerie play} by Emily Gawlak

Let’s play a little game of word association. Quick, what’s the first thing you think of when you hear the word lingerie? Sex, maybe? Victoria’s Secret Angels sprawled out lust…

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Wednesday, July 13, 2016

The Women in Theatre Festival: Moving Beyond Parity With Michole Biancosino by Emily Gawlak

You’ve already found your way to StageBuddy (good for you!), so you know as well as I do that the theatre is a magical place. It’s a place of exploration, fearlessness, honesty and bound…

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Monday, April 4, 2016

Interview: “Antlia Pneumatica” Playwright Anne Washburn on the Act of Listening and Thinking Mysteriously by Emily Gawlak

Anne Washburn’s latest commission for Playwrights Horizons, Antlia Pneumatica, roots, or perhaps uproots, itself in the innate and intimate sense of mystery that surrounds death. To …

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Thursday, February 11, 2016

Interview: “Utility” Playwright Emily Schwend on Working with the “Scrappy” Amoralists and Making the Rattlestick Theater Feel Like Home by Emily Gawlak

At first, Utility, Emily Schwend’s new play with the Amoralists now onstage at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, doesn’t feel particularly earthshaking. There are no explosions, no fits …

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Wednesday, February 10, 2016

“SLUT – The Play”: The Founders of Arts Effect’s All-Girl Theater Company on Talking with Teenagers About Rape Culture by Emily Gawlak

How do you speak up when language does not belong to you? How do you move through the world with agency when your body does not belong to you? SLUT is not an easy play to watch, or even to n…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 02:22PM
Monday, December 21, 2015

Whodunnit At The Players: A 30th Anniversary Tribute To “Clue The Movie” and Jonathan Lynn by Emily Gawlak

Multiple murders at the Players Club! At first glance, a headline that could prove to be the final nail in the coffin for a historic social club dogged in recent years by financial controver…

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Monday, December 14, 2015

Cameron Scoggins on the Chaos and Physicality of Taylor Mac’s “Hir”: “Every character in the play is fighting to be the main character” by Emily Gawlak

Hir, Taylor Mac’s new play, now extended again at Playwrights Horizons, is sending critics and audiences into a frenzy, and it isn’t hard to understand why. With crackling humor, razor w…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:33PM
Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Interview: Dagmara Domińczyk on Originating a Role in Naomi Wallace’s “Night Is A Room” by Emily Gawlak

As a critic, Night Is A Room, Naomi Wallace’s new play now on stage at the Signature Theater, is somewhat of a challenge to write about. There isn’t too much that can be revealed…

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Monday, November 2, 2015

Interview: Perez Hilton on Playing Danny Tanner/Bob Saget in “Full House! The Musical!” by Emily Gawlak

Perez Hilton is what you might call a Jack of All Trades for the Internet age. A pioneer in the world of blogging through his eponymous dot com, he’s been supporting and skewering pop cult…

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Thursday, August 20, 2015

Asking the Tough Questions with “Informed Consent” Playwright Deborah Zoe Laufer by Emily Gawlak

According to Deborah Zoe Laufer, being a playwright is about staring into the sun. And by that I mean asking life’s biggest questions and not just expecting, but knowing that you won&#…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:37PM
Monday, June 22, 2015

Interview: Michael Zegen on Millennial Angst and Jesse Eisenberg’s New Play “The Spoils” by Emily Gawlak

Michael Zegen has found himself in the heart of millennial territory. From Girls and Rescue Me to Frances Ha and Adventureland, the talented young actor has crafted an impressive career span…

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Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Interview: “Orange is the New Black’s” Annie Golden on New Play “Underland” by Emily Gawlak

Annie Golden’s career had fairytale beginnings. Performing at the legendary venue CBGB with her punk band The Shirts, she was spotted by director Miloš Forman, who gave her a role in his …

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