572 stories by "Howard Miller"
If you are going to adapt a well-known book or movie for a theatrical production, there are a couple of ways to go about it.
A Southern Gothic breeze wafts gently through playwright Cyndi Williams's haunted family saga, A Name For A Ghost To Mutter, a production of Theatre East having its New York premiere at Urba…
From Christopher Marlowe's late sixteenth century play about a pair of lovers who both happen to be men, writer/composer Erik Ransom has drawn inspiration for an ambitious, sprawling, and un…
With the historically strange election day of 2016 looming over us, it would not be difficult to imagine a new play depicting a populist uprising by disgruntled citizens, disgusted with the …
Once the deed is done, once the line is crossed, how can there be any turning back? That's the question being raised and also the underlying problem with the unrelentingly creepy production …
War may be hell, but in Red Bull Theater's fierce and fiery production of Shakespeare's Coriolanus, it is politics that is the ultimate destroyer of lives and souls, especially for the might…
The trenchant tale of an underestimated two-bit crook who becomes one of the world's most notorious criminals is brought vividly to life in the Phoenix Theatre Ensemble's production of Berto…
The Huffington Post reports that close to 200 African Americans have been shot and killed by the police thus far in 2016. This is a sobering thought by any reckoning. It also serves as the u…
Playwright Penny Jackson may be the queen of the cautionary tale, especially when she is writing about disaffected upper class private school students and the trouble they can get into when …
That's our Mary Shanley, impeccably dressed in the latest fashions, toting her stylish white purse, and hefting the police revolver that earned her the nickname that is the title of the bio-…
A ballerina without a spine, a lonely and very forgetful man, his perfectionist wife, and an auto mechanic go round and round and round, swapping partners, playing endless games of Charades,…
Bears in Space, the production by Collapsing Horse that is something of a cult hit in Ireland, Scotland, and England, has entered into orbit at 59E59 Theaters as part of Origin's 1st Irish F…
From ghoulies and ghosties and long-legged beasties, and things that go bump in the night, Good Lord, deliver us!
What's a hedonistic gay guy to do when he's turning 40 and the rituals of pleasure have become numbing habit, and the booze, drugs, and sex are no longer doing their job of keeping the wolve…
Who is Medea? What is it about this tragic figure from Greek mythology that has continued to speak to us in an unrelentingly visceral way through so many stage translations for close to 2,50…
"Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak / Whispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break."
Two young women, new college students, are unpacking a few personal belongings in their shared dorm room....
The process of creating short form plays, running under 30 minutes, is as difficult to master as the short story.
War is hell. Truly.
At the start of Richard Strand's glittering seriocomic play Butler, opening tonight at 59E59, you may think you are watching one of those comedies about the foibles of the upper class, the k…
A quest for justice among the members of a barely functional family makes for a disconcerting evening of theater in The Shelter's overwrought production of Morgan McGuire's decidedly freneti…
Given the extensive global anxiety about terrorism, it should come as no surprise that a number of playwrights have attempted to shed light on the disturbing issue of hostage-taking by terro…
Artists are very dangerous people,” declares Bela Veracek (Alex Draper), the acerbic political cartoonist at the center of Howard BarkerÂ’s equally acerbic 1981 drama No End of Blame:…
With the nationalistic fervor and anti-immigrant rhetoric that seems to be sweeping like an ill wind through much of the world these days, PTP/NYC (the Potomac Theatre Project) has been most…
As a pick-up line in a bar, Gabe's invitation to "come watch me bowl" isn't the best way to garner Annie's interest, even if the bar happens to be in a bowling alley....
