182 stories by "Maya Phillips"
This comic short about an actor and his kids staging Greek tragedies under lockdown slyly comments on links between the politics of the family and the state.
In this brief but eerie installation, one viewer and one performer, separated by glass, share the feeling of being trapped underwater.
A naïve young woman struggles with the pitfalls of intimacy in the digital age, on and off the battlefield of a multiplayer online game.
The second grouping of these excellent "Here We Are" monologues includes a raucous report from outer space and a small gem from Lynn Nottage.
It was a flop, but the film adaptation of the Broadway smash turned me on to theater. And those starving artists made me want to make art too.
Theater in Quarantine's latest small-scale, digitally savvy production is an adaptation of a Borges story about a man stopping time to stare down death.
Replete with music, masks and vibrant costumes, "Quince" and "Beast Visit" turn urban green spaces into stages for festivity.
Staying creative in lockdown means setting the scene for a cat, a baby and a garden. Plus an Instagram account that makes Mom and Dad into art stars.
A Seeing Place Theater production and a Play-PerView reunion reading by the 2007 Cherry Lane Theater cast bring out different aspects of Amiri Baraka's famous play.
Source Material presents a postmodern approach to talking about grief and isolation in quarantine.
Electric performances, led by André Holland, transcend didacticism in an audio rendition that replaced a Shakespeare in the Park production.
Efforts like 'The Oedipus Project' are worthy, but in an attempt to draw contemporary parallels, they can misread drama and mislead about the present.
Animated shows are finally moving away from letting white actors play characters of color. But even well-intentioned efforts at increasing diversity create complications.
Anchored by a charismatically off-kilter performance, this one-woman show asks viewers to judge a young Russian accused of a crime of passion.
Despite charming performances, a Culture Project production works too hard bringing a delicate novella to the stage.
A solo stage adaptation of Paul Muldoon's poem considers whether making art can offer solace in the wake of grief.
The neighborhood is referrred to constantly, insistently, but doesn't come to life in Pearl Cleage's play about a nightclub singer from the 1930s.
Donnetta Lavinia Grays is winningly uninhibited in her fable-like solo show about a community seduced by a mysterious benefactor.
Edward Einhorn's playful play takes on a lot: his scientist grandfather, his aging mother and his own doubts about putting their lives onstage.
Eric Tucker updates the allegorical play about the Salem witch trials, directly implicating the audience in its examination of mass hysteria.
An immersive play crossed with an art installation offers sharp angles on race and white supremacy, but is dampened by didactism.
Tawni O'Dell set herself a bracing challenge: Writing and reliving her family's trauma onstage. But it's more than the novelist can pull off.
Friends and family about to be left behind when a young man goes to college reckon with a world of narrow choices in Chad Beckim's play.
Mr. Sunshine is one of the rare Westerners to become a master of the centuries-old Japanese comic storytelling form.
A barbed comedy takes a grim turn when friends find themselves tested over how far they'll go to defend their choices and protect their children.
