I review “4000 Miles” and ask a question about portrayals of advice-giving

at AmCon.

To Practice These Principles in All Our Affairs

The strengths of the new play at the Studio Theatre aren’t where the playwright seems to think they are. The play’s boundary-pushing profanity (I’m using circumlocutions to keep from saying the title, which the local alt-weeklies have been studiously printing in an attempt to prove we’re not provincial) is probably supposed to be raw and [...]

“Love Contract”

That was the original (and better) title of Mike Bartlett’s Contractions, a one-act play I saw at the Studio Theater on Wednesday. The play starts when Emma, some kind of saleswoman, is called to a sterile, glowy dystopian boardroom to speak with a corporate apparatchik about a possible contract violation. The apparatchik, also a lady, [...]

“The Girl with the Most Wedding Cake”

I review a play, at AmCon.