Michaela Goldhaber Revives First Female Playwrights by Lynne Stevens My friend and I thoroughly enjoyed “The Lady Scribblers” and I think any woman who has felt inhibited in her work will enjoy the comedy, too. Michaela Goldhaber’s neo-Restoration comedy, produced by Custom Made Theatre and Those Women Productions, has all the rhymes and reasons…
Octavio Solis Celebrates A Life Lived along the Border by Lynne Stevens We can all relate to family relationships, teenage pregnancies, romantic attractions, and youthful anxieties. But we cannot fully understand the duality of coming from what Octavio Solis calls the “other side” of “this invisible line we call the Border.” Word for Word…
Lucas Hnath Writes A Smart, Funny, Relevant Update by Lynne Stevens Anne Marie, the housekeeper, dozes on a chair. A gentle knock at the enormous blue door, where Nora exited with a bang fifteen years ago, startles her. And there, standing in the softly falling snow, is Nora. Scenic Designer Christopher Fitzer creates an…
Joe Landry Grabs Our Hearts, Strikes the Bell by Lynne Stevens We are in radio STUDIO A at WBFR in Manhattan on Christmas Eve, 1946. The cast leisurely strolls onto the sound stage—straightening props, rustling scripts to let us know “We’re not quite ready yet.” The host of the show Freddie Filmore (jovial…