Sanctuary City
Written by Martina Major
Directed by Rebecca Frecknall
New York Theatre Workshop
October 9, 2021
Production website
💉💉💉 out of 5

It was so great to back into the theatre and see a play.  It had been waaaaaay tooo long! Sanctuary Play was the first of the group.  The story was simple – two adolescents, both children of undocumented workers banded together to plot ways to stay in the country.  The girl simply named “G” found a loophole in the system that allowed her to stay if she was willing to stay with her physically abuse succession of her Mother’s boyfriends and take on an excessive amount of college student debt.  The boy, “B” had it tougher.  His mother was planning to give up and just return to her home country.  His options were to continue hiding in the shadows in fear or to find an American girl that he could marry.  I am sure you can guess where we go from there.

A Thousand Ways – Part 2: An Encounter
Written/Directed by 600 Highwaymen
Public Theatre
June 14, 2021
Production website
💉💉💉 out of 5

Now the action of Part 1 shifts gears sharply. Now this next $15 dollar ticket gets you to the actual THEATRE and gets you sitting directly across from an actual person. Still an audience is lacking but at least we are getting a live event! That’s big! There were about a dozen or so waiting in the lobby and one by one the usher would lead into one of the many theatre spaces of the Public Theatre where we would find ourself on-stage (not in the audience) and facing a simple, well lit table, 2 chairs, one social distancing screen, a stack of typed cards, a pencil, a blank card, and a tape dispenser. Rather spooky to be sitting there all alone. Eventually another person from the lobby that you do know know at all is led into your space and sits in the opposite chair.

72 Miles to Go . . .
Written by Hilary Bettis
Directed by Jo Bonney
Roundabout Theatre Company
Laura Pels Theatre
March 8, 2020
Production website
💉💉💉 out of 5.

I really wanted to love this play; I really did.  I was thinking it was time for a good play to really deal with the DACA debate and the personal stories of those who are living through the experience and the fear.

72 Miles to Go . . follows a splintered family over 10 years of strength, struggle and love, as they face the profoundly personal drama of immigration.   Seventy-two miles. That’s the space between Nogales, Mexico and Tucson, Arizona—and the world of distance that separates a mother at a shelter and her American-born husband and children. Continue reading 72 Miles to Go . . . →