Heather Christian’s Mother Teresa Delivers the Self-Examination 2020+ Demands by Jennifer Ann Charron I have been riveted by Joshua William Gelb’s brilliance and adaptability since Theater in Quarantine started in March 2020. Streaming live theater performances from a closet in the East Village … cool. And creating intellectually stimulating and visually avant-garde theater via…
Jorge Luis Borges Meets the Moment in New York Closet by Jennifer Ann Charron Not a lot of good has come out of 2020. Even the most privileged, most content, most well-adjusted of us seem to be struggling to find any light. But last week, I witnessed a marvelous source of resilience for the dark…
Holland Taylor Resurrects Ann Richards, A Political Giant by Jennifer Ann Charron The weirder the 21st Century gets, the more the late 20th Century seems a million miles away. I find this true with just about everything, but never more shocking in the world of politics. I’ll save the chilling discussion of the rise…
Simon Stephens Invokes Delicacy in Harsh Times by Jennifer Ann Charron It’s hard these days not to view everything through the lens of 2020—global warming, worldwide pandemic, systemic racial injustice, millions sick or dead, 100-degree temperatures in Siberia. Everything seems so big, so overwhelming, so “HUGE.” I’ve grown exhausted using words like dystopian, monumental,…