There must be a lot of Lucy Thurber-envy going around Gotham, given the ambitious five-play retrospective of her work being produced by Rattlestick Playwrights Theater and running concurrently in…
Watching Vanessa Redgrave submerge herself in a role is a little like watching someone drown, so total is her immersion into character. Her self-sacrifice in this Rattlestick presentation of "The…
Love must be blind. How else to explain Rattlestick's infatuation with "A Summer Day," a peculiar piece by Jon Fosse that returns Karen Allen, beloved heroine of Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones…
Vanessa Redgrave and Jesse Eisenberg will star in actor-scribe Eisenberg's latest Off Broadway play, "The Revisionist," set for a stint at the Rattlestick Theater in the spring.
An otherwise incoherent drama written in a contrarian style that's a cross between literary Magic Realism and a zombie movie.
Jesse Eisenberg has written himself a juicy acting role in "Asuncion" as an idealistic social reformer whose intellectual pretensions make him the exact opposite of Mark Zuckerberg, the scary-cool…
Annie Baker and her two plays from the 2009-10 season were recurring themes at the 55th annual Obie Awards.
A first play by musician Suzanne Vega and one from veteran praiser Dan Klores are among the shows on tap for the 2010-11 season at Off Broadway's Rattlestick Playwrights Theater.
Given the lack of action and conflict, it doesn't quite measure up as a full-length play.
Lucy Thurber bashes smart girls who turn their backs on their low-class backgrounds.
"Slipping" shows promise, but at present it seems more TV movie than play.