When Stephen Karam approached adapting his 2016 Tony Award winning play The Humans for the screen, he realised that the only way to do it successfully was to take it "completely apart" and "reassemble it so that it would work again as another kind of creature". As well as writing the script, following his film... Continue Reading →
Watching Dead Skin—which won the State Theatre Company of South Australia’s Young Playwright’s Award and had its world premiere at the Kings Cross Theatre Sydney this week—I was impressed by the complexity of the narrative structure, the ease and flow of dialogue that authentically captures the energy and angst of youth, as well as the... Continue Reading →
Premiering Off-Broadway in April 1968, Mart Crowley's groundbreaking play The Boys in the Band was a hit with queer and straight theatregoers alike. Two years later it was adapted for the screen by Crowley, and upon the playwright's insistence the William Friedkin directed movie featured the entire cast from the original stage production. Initially hailed... Continue Reading →
Playwright Sam Max's Coop, which they also direct, opened Off-Off-Broadway last week at the Paradise Factory in the East Village. Produced by a queer and femme led creative team, the impactful new play stars Latinx, transmasculine actor Lio Mehiel as Avery, a girl who has been isolated from the world and kept in a rigidly... Continue Reading →
UPDATE: SLAVE PLAY, which received a record-breaking 12 Tony nominations, returns to Broadway for 69 performances from November 23rd 2021 at the August Wilson Theatre. Tickets are on sale now. Warning: contains potential spoilers. Jeremy O. Harris’s searingly uncompromising, disarmingly funny and often suitably uncomfortable Slave Play was a recipient of multiple awards as part... Continue Reading →
