BWW Review: SOLDIER'S FUGUE Marches into MAIN STREET THEATER
by Brett Cullum - Feb 10, 2020
Narratively ELLIOT, A SOLDIER'S FUGUE simply combines three soldiers in Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq. They represent a grandfather, a father, and a son who all go through similar experiences in the wars of their respective eras.
BWW Interview: THE NICETIES playwright Eleanor Burgess Mining History To Facilitate Truthful Plays
by Gil Kaan - Apr 9, 2019
Playwright Eleanor Burgess' latest work THE NICETIES receives its west coast premiere at the Geffen Playhouse beginning April 9, 2019. THE NICETIES charts the escalating series of calm-to-volatile discourses between a university college professor and her brilliant student on history, race and reputation. Eleanor, a Huntington Playwright Fellow, carved out some time to answer a few of my inquisitive inquiries on her writing processes, while touching on some of her professional milestones.
City Lights 2017-18 Season Focuses on Family Matters
by Julie Musbach - Apr 21, 2017
Family is where you find it-not just where you're born. How do we define our kin and who we are in relation to them? In City Lights Theater Company's 35th season, family and community are found in a Chekhovian country house, Washington Heights, and Mr. and Mrs. Darcy's Christmas. They're also in the pages of a controversial children's book, and in how we connect with each other to meet the dark side of humanity.
Broadway Bullet Interview: In the Heights
by Michael Gilboe - Mar 14, 2007
We were given the chance to talk with 'In The Heights's' Lin-Manuel Miranda (lyricist, composer, Usnavi) and Quiara Alegria Hudes (book) about the show and it's Off-Broadway run, complete with two songs from the show.