Allen Smith’s set for Annie Baker’s play Body Awareness at Pygmalion Theater is a kitchen and a bedroom — as Ikea-perfect as a dollhouse. There is something so orderly about the kitchen it’s startling; it ‘s too precious to be real. It seems it’s still a drawing on […]
Internationally celebrated playwright Catherine Filloux has always had a penchant for traveling to haunted places filled with hunted people and then writing eloquently about their plight so that the rest of us can wake up to what is really going on in our world. White Savior, the play she is […]
Daisy Blake has waited 15 years for this role. It’s not an iconic one — Lady Macbeth or Blanche DuBois — nor even a lead; but it’s one she says is on her theatrical bucket list, the one she has chosen to embrace after a 5-year absence from […]
Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass is an iconic literary piece including depth of character, scene, and emotion that requires significant introspection to truly appreciate. Combining the intricacies of this literary masterpiece and bringing it to a stage play that is approachable for teenage audiences may seem a daunting task, but […]
Night after night, a young white woman watches news broadcasts about police violence against African- American citizens. Although she lives far away, she is moved to act against the brutality she sees on the screen by joining the protest effort. The year is 1965—but it could just as […]
Playwright Brian Richard Mori set himself a challenge when he set out to dramatize one of the 20th century’s most illuminating literary feuds. While more than half of all Americans must be old enough to remember this and other events from the early 1980s, few things can have […]
‘When evil comes into the world, it is the job of the witnesses to turn it into love.’ Statistically, when a child dies, more than half the time the parents end up by divorcing. The reason most often given is conflict over how to grieve. These differences aren’t […]
For many, Christmas comes with a concentrated dose of dysfunctional family “fun.” Anyone who didn’t get theirs this year can find it at A Night with the Family, Matthew Ivan Bennett’s new play being staged by Pygmalion Productions. The comedy takes us back to the holiday with an energetic performance […]
