From now on, I’ll be looking out for any play by the award-winning playwright, MARTYNA MAJOK. Cost of Living is about people who need each other to survive, but fight it. She knows how to develop characters so that when the wham of the climax comes, you realize how it had bee subtly prepared for. […]
The 2017 Rattle Poetry Prize deadline is this Saturday – and we don’t play the “Extended Deadline!!!” game: if you miss it, you’ll miss it. So don’t miss it! This weekend, I’ll sit down and start reading each of a few thousand entries, and I hope your best poems will be in the running for the $10,000 first […]
How I worried about Nora’s kids after she left for the first time in Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House. Now, in A Doll’s House, Part 2, just as shockingly as she left, Nora (Laurie Metcalf) comes back. She hasn’t come for a reconciliation with Torvald (Chris Cooper) who she walked out on fifteen years ago. […]
I read Orwell’s 1984 in high school. I knew it was anti-Communism, but since I never lived under a totalitarian regime, I thought it was more like sci-fi. Newspeak, Ignorance is Strength, Ignorance is Power all sounded satirical. Now it feels all too real. OLIVIA WILDE as Julia in her Broadway debut is an actress […]
The Shuttered House