Little Bear Ridge Road Written by Samuel D. Hunter Directed by Joe Mantello Booth Theatre October 9, 2025 Production website 💉💉💉💉💉 out of 5
I just cannot get enough of Laurie Metcalf on stage. She could sit there and read the phone book (if they still made those) and I would buy my ticket. Here, in Little Bear Ridge Road, we get to see Laurie Metcalf at her very best. In this 95 minute one-act written by Samuel D. Hunter, (coming off of his success with both the play and the movie The Whale). Laurie Metcalf, plays an independent, curmudgeonly Idaho woman whose gay nephew arrives in town to settle his dead, meth-addicted, and abusive father’s affairs. The play focuses on the long-strained relationship between these two people as well as the connections we do or do not make as we live our lives.
Oratorio for Living Things Written by Heather Christian Directed by Lee Sunday Evans Signature Theatre October 4, 2025 Production website 💉💉💉💉💉 out of 5.
Heather Christian has written truly a divine experience in her Oratorio for Living Things. It truly feels like more of a call to worship than any piece of theatre than I have ever experienced. It is really impossible to define but I will do my best. It is a classical choral masterwork infused with pop, blues and gospel. A dozen stunning vocalists and six incredible instrumentalists make sense and aural spectacle out of Christian’s composition of this rich poetic text. Because the lyrics are dense and can be difficult to parse (some parts are in Latin, sometimes it builds into cacophony) they even hand out hymnals out at the entrance to the theatre to follow along with the language, but I quickly put it back down on my lap as I didn’t want any one of my senses to miss the experience.
Call Me Izzy Written by Jamie West Directed by Sarna Lapine Roundabout Theatre – Studio 54 August 6, 2025 Production website 💉💉💉💉💉 out of 5.
This is one remarkable story on stage. Going into a one-person show, I am always wondering if perhaps the show would be best read with little need to go to the theatre, but Jean Smart absolutely proves me wrong on this. From the first moment played in a chair, in her tiny bathroom, in a trailer, in Louisiana you cannot take your eyes of her.
well, I’ll let you go Written by Bubba Weiler Directed by Jack Serio The Space at Irondale August 5, 2025 Production website 💉💉💉💉💉 out of 5.
Set in a small Midwestern town well I’ll let you go is a portrait of a woman and a community in crisis. Alternately vast and personal in scope, shifting backwards and forwards in time, this expansive, yet incredibly intimate, debut play sifts through the rubble of a town, marriage and a life built on an American dream that’s crumbled period.
Entering the “space” above a beautiful church in Brooklyn I was met with a very long court of a floor all in nailed down in plywood and a handful of metal folding chairs. I knew this was going to be a terrible show or something really special. AND it turned out to be something very, very special. It is impossible to believe that this is playwright Bubba Weiler’s playwriting debut – – It is so clean and clear with beautiful language and the perfect blending of kitchen-sink American realism with touches of theatrical magic. I was interested and invested in each character and wanted to see how each of their story lines played out.
The Picture of Dorian Gray Written by Oscar Wilde In a new adaptation written and directed by Kip Williams Music Box Theatre May 23, 2025 Production website 💉💉💉💉💉 out of 5.
The Picture of Dorian Gray was an incredible night in the theatre! It was simply magical how one woman, an amazing technology and crew could fill the stage and tell a somewhat forgotten story long considered a literary classic. From the very first moment that the large screen center stage lights up, you know you are going to see the “pictures” in the Picture of Dorian Gray like you could never have imagined. The story is told by one woman using characters she creates live vying with those she has pre-recorded on sets that are live in front of us and settings that have been pre-recorded.
