Neil Simon Tempers Jewish Immigrants’ Grief with Youthful Laughter by Mary Lou Herlihy Generations of bitterness cast a pall over the Kurnitz family. But the unexpected arrival of an estranged son with two teenage boys renews hope for these Jewish immigrants as they chase the “American Dream.” Neil Simon’s “Lost in Yonkers” is set…
Eboni Booth Casts Light on Black Invisibility by Mary Lou Herlihy Crafty Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Eboni Booth humorously examines U.S. values that place profit over people. In the “mostly white” and seemingly idyllic suburb of Cranberry, outside Rochester N.Y., life feels precarious for a young black man with no family. With creeping gentrification…
David Henry Hwang’s Tragicomedy Exposes Erotic & Sexual Politics by Mary Lou Herlihy & Barry David Horwitz In a glittering spectacle skewering toxic masculinity, “M. Butterfly” exposes arrogant men who subjugate women and drag US into endless wars. In stark contrast to the stunning artistry onstage, David Henry Hwang’s witty, groundbreaking, and confrontational play…
Katori Hall Writes A New Beginning for Reverend King by Mary Lou Herlihy & Barry David Horwitz “The Mountaintop” works its magic to help us RE-THINK our roles in the never-ending march toward Freedom. In statues and schools everywhere, images of Martin Luther King Jr. remind us of his achievements, his greatness. But playwright Katori Hall takes an artist’s…