40 stories 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 was fi…
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 on who…
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, thrilli…
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 Theater. Th…
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…
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 paints the…
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 brief po…
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…
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 beginnin…
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 Anniversary S…
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 screwbal…
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 be…
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, and a…
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 " where h…
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…
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. …
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 Grea…
“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…
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 Emer…
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 lustil…
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 boundary …
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.Â�…
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 of…
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…
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…
