Melinda Lopez readies Mala for its Boston return Last fall, ArtsEmerson presented the world premiere of Mala, Huntington playwright-in-residence Melinda Lopez’s gorgeous, deeply personal, and unforgettable one-woman play about loss, family, and what it means to be human. In the midst of trying to see her mother through the final months of […]
KEN URBAN’S BIG MOMENT
With a new post at MIT and a world premiere play at the Huntington, everything’s coming up Urban Who would ever have thought that a field trip to an engineering firm would be responsible for giving the American theater one of its most potent and exciting new voices? But that’s kind of how it […]
‘NECESSARY MONSTERS’ IS ECCENTRIC AND ESSENTIAL
More than just an exercise in avant-imagination, “Necessary Monsters” is blisteringly funny and critical.
THE FREEGAN DIALOGUES: OLIVIA THIRLBY STARS IN—AND BELIEVES IN—EVE ENSLER’S NEW PLAY “O.P.C.”
Photo By Gretjen Helene If Blake Lively were sitting in front of me and describing her latest role as “my favorite,” I might be wont to dismiss it as a flippant remark, something like a friend offhandedly reassuring you that she just loves her new shoes. But Romi, the unapologetic, radical-minded, free-loving freegan of Eve […]
THE FREEGAN DIALOGUES
Olivia thirlby stars in—and believes in—Eve Ensler’s new play “O.P.C.”
DOWN WITH PRONOUNS, UP WITH ‘THE DISPLACED HINDU GODS TRILOGY’
I’ve never cried during a stand-up routine, at least not until I saw “Brahman/i: A One Hijra Stand-Up Comedy Show.”
IT’S ALL VERY COSMIC: THE DISPLACED HINDU GODS TRILOGY
In her upcoming series of plays, dubbed the Displaced Hindu Gods Trilogy, playwright Aditi Brennan Kapil—who is half-Indian, half-Bulgarian, and grew up in Sweden before ultimately settling in the US—explores a phenomenon she calls “re-mythologizing.”
