Thinking Outside The Box
Last Tuesday night, I ventured into Brooklyn to see The Box: A Black Comedy by Marcus Gardley, produced by The Foundry Theatre at the Irondale Center. There, I had the rare experience, in my…
Last Tuesday night, I ventured into Brooklyn to see The Box: A Black Comedy by Marcus Gardley, produced by The Foundry Theatre at the Irondale Center. There, I had the rare experience, in my…
(All photos of Nadio Parvez Manzoor.) To give credit where credit is due, I need to preface this piece by saying that earlier last Friday afternoon, I read two excellent articles on Howlr…
As a very fresh freshman at Sarah Lawrence College, the first play that I saw with my “Far-Off, Off-Off, Off- and On-Broadway” class was Lucy Thurber’s Killers and Other Fa…
In my first weeks of New York City living, trying on the title of "young playwright" as opposed to "Sarah Lawrence student," I have been making good use of my most valuable graduation presen…
(Editor’s note: All of the quotes are taken from Undesirable Elements by Ping Chong, now available from TCG Books.) Something clicked for me with theatre, in my senior year of high sch…
The personal is political. A well-known rallying cry from the Second Wave American feminist movement of the 1960s and 1970s, those words were ringing in my ears in a higher pitch after a str…
It had been a long time since I had walked into a roomful of strangers and felt such an immediate sense of camaraderie and kinship. That was exactly my reaction upon entering the West Villag…