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Monday, September 6, 2021

“Don’s Party” at 50: An Achingly Real Portrayal of The Hapless Australian Middle-Class Voter by Kathryn Kelly

The play Don’s Party premiered on August 11, 1971 at Carlton’s Pram Factory, home to the radical theatre ensemble The Australian Performing Arts Group. Established four years earlier in …

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Saturday, December 1, 2018

Review of ‘Beloved’ by Kathryn Kelly

Beloved makes its United States debut at the Lion Theatre on Theatre Row with the Scandinavian American Theater Company. Written by Lisa Langseth and translated by Charlotte Barslund, Belove…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:25AM
Wednesday, August 1, 2018

Review of ‘Fire in Dreamland’ by Kathryn Kelly

Fire in Dreamland begins with Kate (Rebecca Naomi Jones), a frustrated bureaucrat working to restore Coney Island after the devastation of Hurricane Sandy, telling her story of meeting a pas…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:19PM
Thursday, June 28, 2018

Review of ‘Girls & Boys’ by Kathryn Kelly

Girls & Boys, written by Dennis Kelly and directed by Lyndsey Turner, first premiered earlier this year with the Royal Court Theatre in London and has how made its way across the pond …

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:39PM
Monday, March 19, 2018

Review: A Psychiatrist Conducts his Patients in Song in ‘Good for Otto’ by Kathryn Kelly

Good for Otto, presented by the New Group at Signature Theater, offers a master class in acting from its impressive cast, yet the meandering plot and three-hour running time diminish the pot…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:44PM
Tuesday, March 6, 2018

Review: The Signature Theater Offers a Rare Production of Albee’s Complete ‘At Home at the Zoo’ by Kathryn Kelly

Edward Albee first wrote The Zoo Story in 1959, but feeling it could use a little more substance (particularly regarding one of the characters, Peter), decided to add on Homelife as the firs…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 05:12PM
Monday, March 5, 2018

Review: Gabriel Jason Dean’s ‘Terminus’ Buzzes with Potential by Kathryn Kelly

Terminus is an emotional tour de force, and while it benefits from the intimacy of its home Next Door at New York Theatre Workshop, it buzzes with the potential as the next great play in the…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 10:10AM
Tuesday, January 23, 2018

Review: The Homecoming Queen by Kathryn Kelly

The Homecoming Queen marks playwright Ngozi Anyanwu’s Off-Broadway debut and long may she reign! The play is a beautiful meditation on home, alienation, love, pain, and regret. It strikes…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:12PM
Tuesday, January 16, 2018

Review: Ballyturk by Kathryn Kelly

I’m still not sure what to make of Ballyturk, Enda Walsh’s play currently making its American debut at St. Ann’s Warehouse. I’d also maintain, however, that while there is an often f…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 03:10PM
Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Review: Actually by Kathryn Kelly

Actually, now playing at the Studio at Stage II at New York City Center, comes at a bleak time in the landscape of sexual politics. This moment is bleak not because things like abuse or rape…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 09:00PM
Thursday, October 26, 2017

Review: After the Blast by Kathryn Kelly

In this time of anxiety regarding the present and uneasiness about the future, it might feel as if the arts are, at best, escapist fodder and, at worst, self-indulgent vanities. Certainly, A…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:38PM
Monday, October 2, 2017

Review: Mary Jane by Kathryn Kelly

I shouldn’t be surprised that an offering at New York Theatre Workshop would be an exceptional piece of theater, but Amy Herzog’s Mary Jane directed by Anne Kauffman, transcends even the…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 11:59AM
Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Review: Fucking A by Kathryn Kelly

If you are convinced society has progressed beyond Nathaniel Hawthorne’s vision in The Scarlet Letter, Suzan-Lori Parks has an offering to prove otherwise: Fucking A. In the program notes …

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Thursday, August 31, 2017

Review: Inanimate by Kathryn Kelly

Inanimate is a somewhat misleading title for such a buoyant, funny, and heartwarming journey of self-acceptance and love. Nick Robideau’s play directed by Courtney Ulrich makes its world p…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:56PM
Monday, August 7, 2017

Review: A Real Boy by Kathryn Kelly

At the 59E59 Theater’s world premiere of A Real Boy, the setting is a kindergarten classroom, but it’s clear that in Stephen Kaplan’s play, lessons of acceptance cannot be learned as e…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:48PM

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2023-2024 BROADWAY SEASON
May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards