Rob Stevens – Haines His Way Afong Moy was 14 years old when she was sold by her father and brought to New York City by traders Nathaniel and Frederick Carne and put on display in their museum. Admission was…
Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw It’s not often we have a story that spotlights a friendship between an elderly woman and a much younger one. It’s a welcome notion, and the primary draw for playwright Grace McLeod’s Herland, a National New Play…
Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw It’s hard to think of a timelier play than Jennifer Barclay’s Ripe Frenzy, about a shooting and mass murder that takes place in a high school in a small town in upstate New York. A rolling…
Deborah Klugman – Capital & Main In Yerma in the Desert, the desert is less an external place than the state of mind of the title character. Written by Oliver Mayer, the play is inspired by Federico Garcia Lorca’s 1934 classic Yerma,…
Terry Morgan – Stage Raw One of the positive uses of art is to shine a light on historical figures that might otherwise have remained obscure — to give someone the credit he or she deserved but didn’t receive in…