Suicide Forest Colin Macdonald 09/03/2020 Haruna Lee’s Suicide Forest, an experimental play that wrestles with questions of Japanese-American cultural and sexual identity and psychology in a w...
17 Minutes Colin Macdonald 23/01/2020 Scott Organ’s 17 Minutes, presented by the Barrow Group and directed by its co-artistic director Seth Barrish, is a play about inaction: both an indiv...
Mrs. Murray’s Menagerie Colin Macdonald 09/04/2019 The Mad Ones, a theater ensemble who compose collaboratively through a process that involves prolonged improvisation, character-building workshops, an...
Life Sucks Colin Macdonald 04/04/2019 Wheelhouse Theater Company’s production of Aaron Posner’s “Life Sucks,” under the direction of Jeff Wise, is described as “sort of” an adaptation of C...
Maverick Colin Macdonald 13/02/2019 There’s a particular challenge in trying to portray genius, which consists so much of the ineffable—in the case of Frank Beacham and George Demas’s Ma...
Vivian’s Music, 1969 Colin Macdonald 26/11/2018 Monica Bauer’s Vivian’s Music, 1969 - currently at 59e59’s Theater C, under the direction of Glory Kadigan - is a “fantasia” inspired by real events: ...
Measure for Measure Colin Macdonald 19/10/2018 Moscow’s Pushkin Theatre and London’s Cheek by Jowl join forces in staging one of Shakespeare’s knottiest works for BAM’s Next Wave Festival, the “pro...
Uncle Romeo Vanya Juliet Colin Macdonald 26/09/2018 The reaction to hearing about Bedlam’s new production—simultaneously performing Chekov’s Uncle Vanya and Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet with a cast of...
A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur Colin Macdonald 26/09/2018 A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur, a late-career Tennessee Williams play, had its New York premiere in 1979, at the Hudson Guild Theater. Almost forty y...
Summer Shorts Series B Colin Macdonald 06/08/2018 If there’s a thread that runs through the Summer Shorts (Series B) at 59E59, presented by Throughline Artists, it’s the stories we tell ourselves—abou...
