Review: POWER OF SAIL, Menier Chocolate Factory
by Mica Blackwell - Apr 2, 2024
Early in Power of Sail, we learn it’s firmly set in 2019. A mere year later, the world would face a global pandemic, the Black Lives Matter movement and online misinformation reaching its peak as right-wing have been given bigger platforms to express their hate under the guise of freedom of speech. Still
European Premere of POWER OF SAIL Comes to the Menier Chocolate Factory Next Month
by Stephi Wild - Feb 5, 2024
With its critically acclaimed production of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s Pacific Overtures running at the venue, the Menier Chocolate Factory has announced the European première of Paul Grellong’s Power of Sail. Dominic Dromgoole returns to the company, after the success of last year’s Marjorie Prime, to direct.
Review: THE SOUND INSIDE at Pasadena Playhouse
by Evan Henerson - Sep 19, 2023
when you’ve got a guy like Adam Rapp writing a cerebral two-handed dance between a Yale creative writing professor and her enigmatic new student, and you pepper it with scribes ranging from Dostoevsky to Anne Tyler, and you give the whole shebang to the Pasadena Playhouse and cast Amy Brenneman in the lead role, well, what’s not to like.
Cast Revealed For Horror Play THE ANTS At Geffen Playhouse
by Stephi Wild - May 23, 2023
Geffen Playhouse has announced the full cast for its world premiere production of The Ants, written by Ramiz Monsef (The Unfortunates, 3 Farids) and directed by Pirronne Yousefzadeh (Vietgone, Queen). Find out who is starring in the show here!
APPROPRIATE Opens at The Warehouse Theatre in June
by Stephi Wild - May 25, 2022
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins popular comedy APPROPRIATE gets its first Greenville production on June 10th. The dark, family comedy is being produced by The Warehouse Theatre after originally being scheduled during the initial pandemic shutdown.
Hugo Armstrong, Anne Gee Byrd & More to Star in UNCLE VANYA at Pasadena Playhouse
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Apr 26, 2022
Pasadena Playhouse has announced casting and creative team for the Los Angeles premiere of the Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear, and Larissa Volokhonsky translation of Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov coming to the Playhouse June 1 through June 26; the press opening is Sunday, June 5 at 5 p.m.
BWW Review: POWER OF SAIL at Geffen Playhouse
by Evan Henerson - Feb 26, 2022
POWER OF SAIL is a smart firecracker of a play getting a blistering production at the Geffen Playhouse directed by Weyni Mengesha. Presenting itself initially as a debate masquerading as dramatic fiction, SAIL quickly pivots and deepens, morphing into a tale that is part character study, part thriller.
Review Roundup: Critics Sound Off On Geffen Playhouse's POWER OF SAIL
by Alan Henry - Feb 23, 2022
Geffen Playhouse is presenting Power of Sail, written by Paul Grellong, and directed by Weyni Mengesha. Now on stage through March 20th, Power of Sail features Hugo Armstrong, Amy Brenneman, Bryan Cranston, Donna Simone Johnson, Tedra Millan, Seth Numrich and Brandon Scott.