As the holiday season winds down, you might be on the lookout for something that isn’t a Hallmark holiday movie, a show to binge watch, or a 2020 retrospective of highlights (lowlights?) fro... Read more
Sit down to tea and listen to masterful storytellers spin tales of personal pain and triumph, each with a different flavor and experience. Yet each character is portrayed by the same, gifted... Read more
It is a long, LONG way from Queens to Nigeria, and from Nigeria to Vermont. Such is the series of journeys that form Caleen Sinnette Jennings’ Queens Girl trilogy of single-actor plays... Read more
What would the holidays be without Charles Dickens’ tale of ghostly visitors and a miser’s redemption? Yes, of course I mean “A Christmas Carol,” when Ebenezer Scrooge struts and... Read more
“I beg you to call to mind the table covered with your last Christmas gifts…” Thus we read in E.T.A. Hoffmann’s Christmas fantasy “The Nutcracker and the King of Mice.” Since t... Read more
Just as every premiere of an August Wilson play on Broadway was a major event, every film based on his plays should shake the earth beneath our feet. Especially for those of us who, being wh... Read more
Evoking the bygone era of British high society and the heyday of travel by steam train, “The Railway Children,” is a family-friendly event with a decidedly English flair and a tr... Read more
“Kinky Boots” is a big, beautiful, Broadway hit with heart and soul that celebrates tolerance, acceptance, and love. “Celebrate yourself triumphantly!” These lyrics, taken from... Read more
What happens when respected playwrights like Lauren Gunderson and David Henry Hwang team up with 1st Stage to produce an online reading of seven plays written by teens from around the county... Read more
Written on an accelerated schedule (commissioned in June 2020 and ready in August 2020), then cast, rehearsed, and produced by five companies across the United States by December 2020, Sunda... Read more
