Sugarland: Mourning Becomes Electric
March 13, 2022
The offstage war in On Sugarland, Aleshea Harris’ poetic and riveting new play at New York Theater Workshop, is unnamed. It could be the Persian Gulf War or the conflict in Afghanistan. It could even ...
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Split Personality Sanctuary
October 1, 2021
Martyna Majok’s intense, well-meaning Sanctuary City has a split personality. The first hour of this tale of two young people struggling to deal with our inequitable immigration laws is told in short, fragmentary shards. Sometimes ...
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Politics, Sex, and Race: Great Society, Slave Play, Wrong Man
October 9, 2019
Robert Schenkkan provided a brilliant example of political theater with his Tony winning All the Way which played Broadway in 2014 after premiering at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. The epic drama’s trajectory concerned President Lyndon ...
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