plays
'Blue/Orange' Is a Play About Black Men’s Mental Health, Brought to Life by a Former DJ
It's been 16 years since this play was first staged, and it remains a crucial and urgent a depiction of race, mental health, ethnocentricity, and power.
Barry Gifford Is America’s Offbeat Dostoevsky
We caught up with the novelist, poet, and frequent David Lynch collaborator to talk about his new book 'Writers' and what it’s been like working with the iconic director.
The Best Musical of the Year Is a Hip-Hop Show About Alexander Hamilton
Lin-Manuel Miranda's new Broadway play 'Hamilton: An American Musical' is inventive, educational, and also really, really good.
'Three Busy Debras' Is a Play About Psychopaths with an Interest in Incest and Brunch
The irreverent, possibly genius show features necrophilia, the Holocaust, 9/11, Kony 2012, kidnapping, pedophilia, suicide, mariticide, masturbation, infidelity committed with ghosts, and all things Debra.
'Good Kill' Brings the Drone War Home
Motherboard talks to Ethan Hawke about his new movie, which shows the psychological toll drone warfare takes on pilots.
A South African Playwright Created an Unflinching Play About Gang Rape in India
Yaël Farber's play Nirbhaya focuses on a Delhi gang rape, but it doesn't attempt to reduce the unspeakable, amorphous horror of the event into a neat or palatable narrative.
These Heti Days Are Yours and Mine: 'Happy Days' at the Kitchen
Sheila Heti's unstageable play, All Our Happy Days Are Stupid, brings Canadian collaboration, clumsiness, and joyful absurdity to the Kitchen.
Hey British Theatre, Where Are All the Women?
Things have got slightly better since Shakespeare's time, I guess.
Lindsay Lohan Played Herself in Her London Stage Debut
This week, I attended the London production of Speed-the-Plow, David Mamet’s satirical take on the American movie business, which stars Lindsay Lohan as a mysterious girl with nothing to bank on except her sexuality.
Spike Jonze and Jonah Hill Are Playwrights Now
It’s seemingly impossible for a person to try their hand at everything without completely sucking at at least something. This apparently doesn’t apply to Spike Jonze as the director, producer, screenwriter, actor, skater, impressive dancer, etc. etc...
Screenwriter Louis Mellis on Starting Out and What an Idea Is
The guy who wrote the film Sexy Beast has a story in our June fiction issue, so we had fiction writer April Ayers Lawson interview him. As suspected, he's brilliant and...
If You Want Live Theater in LA, the Best You Can Hope for Is a Tarantino Musical
His work is so busy applauding other people’s work, that it seems only fitting that a celebration of his pop culture cut-and-paste meanderings would be spooled together for our live theater viewing pleasure in a town that’s constantly talking about how...