Millennial Notes Aaron Posner’s Passionate Characters Bare Their Souls by Carly Van Liere An aging professor crashes at his first wife’s house with his hot young wife. Their arrival shakes things up at the quiet country estate: routines are ruined, old resentments are relit, and all hell breaks loose. As the title suggests, each…
Millennial Notes Chekhov Pits City Dreamers against Country Workers by Carly Van Liere The set itself a cage, metal bars and shelves lining two parallel sides of the stage, the audience sits, divided into two, facing itself. The characters bounce off the walls and climb the structure, hands stretched wide as they palm and…
Winkler Throws Privileged Whites to the Birds by Susan Dunn Leah Nanako Winkler is on a mission. She’s tired of the old theater formulas: white folks sitting around the dinner table airing their angst, exploding their family myths, and then closing ranks against any outsiders. In “Two Mile Hollow,” affluent whites are targets of…
Millennial Notes Christopher Durang’s Riff on Chekhov’s Entourage by Emily Colby Anton Chekhov, Snow White, Maggie Smith, Voodoo, and a shirtless 20-something. It’s like TV’s Chopped, where unexpected ingredients come together to create a pop-culture challenge. But, instead of cuisine, CCCT is serving up a fresh, fanciful comedy, called “Vanya and Sonia and Masha…