On August 18th, 2016, in the height of the campaign season months before election night, The New Yorker published a cartoon from Paul Noth that is still eerily relevant over a year later. It... Read more
Dominique Morrisseau began writing “Skeleton Crew” when she met a woman who was living in her car in the parking lot of a hotel in her hometown of Detroit. She remembers being devastated, “T... Read more
“Big Fish” is one of those shows whose origin feels a little bit like a game of telephone. Before it was a musical, it was a critically acclaimed movie by Tim Burton, with a screenplay by Jo... Read more
In a 1986 interview with the New York Times, screenwriter and playwright Horton Foote once said, “I’ve known people that the world has thrown everything at to discourage them, to kill them,... Read more
We drove up in our car and were faced with huge blown up signs of fetuses, babies, and a man on a megaphone screaming things at a couple of peaceful women in simple red sashes who blocked th... Read more
Tennessee Williams once said, “There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself.... Read more
From Sarah Treem, the woman who brought you the incredibly nuanced and stimulating play “The How and The Why” comes another incredibly stimulating and nuanced play, “When We Were Young and U... Read more
Before Patti Lupone took on the role of Maria Callas in Terrence McNally’s “Master Class,” the New York Times hailed it as “actor proof.” However, as “art is domination” is La Divina’... Read more
My acquaintance with Gilbert and Sullivan began, as most high school theatre kids’ do, with the tongue twister song “Modern Major General” from “The Pirates of Penzance.” We would gath... Read more
A play about the biological origins of menstruation? When he first heard about it, even Theatre J’s esteemed artistic director, Adam Immerwahr, remembers being skeptical. But as he worked on... Read more
