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Suicide Forest

Haruna Lee’s Suicide Forest, an experimental play that wrestles with questions of Japanese-American cultural and sexual identity and psychology in a w...
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17 Minutes

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...
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Mrs. Murray’s Menagerie

The Mad Ones, a theater ensemble who compose collaboratively through a process that involves prolonged improvisation, character-building workshops, an...
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Life Sucks

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...
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Maverick

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...
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Vivian’s Music, 1969

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: ...
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Measure for Measure

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...
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Uncle Romeo Vanya Juliet

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...
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Summer Shorts Series B

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...