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News: Announcing the 71st Annual Outer Critics Circle Awards Commemorating the 2021-2022 Broadway and Off-Broadway Season

May 17, 2022 | awards, black no, Broadway, kimberly, lehman, News, Off-Broadway, public, sanctuary city, the lehman > | 2021-2022 Season, Broadway, Off-Broadway, Outer Critics Circle Award

The Outer Critics Circle (OCC), the official organization of writers on New York theatre for out-of-town newspapers and national publications, is pleased to announce the winners of the 71st Annual Outer Critics Circle Awards, honoring the 2021-2022 Broadway and Off-Broadway season. The Broadway play The Lehman Trilogy leads the pack with six wins, including Outstanding New Broadway Play, followed by…

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News: Drama Desk Awards 2020 Nominations Announced

May 16, 2022 | awards, black no, Broadway, harmony, kimberly, News, Off-Broadway, Off-Off-Broadway, public, sanctuary city > | Drama Desk Award

The nominees for the 66th Annual Drama Desk Awards: Outstanding Play Cullud Wattah, by Erika Dickerson-Despenza, The Public Theater English, by Sanaz Toossi, Atlantic Theater Company Prayer for the French Republic, by Joshua Harmon, Manhattan Theatre Club Sanctuary City, by Martyna Majok, New York Theatre Workshop Selling Kabul, by Sylvia Khoury, Playwrights Horizons The Chinese Lady, by Lloyd Suh, The…

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Off-Broadway Review: New York Theatre Workshop’s “Sanctuary City” at the Lucille Lortel Theatre (Closed Sunday October 10, 2021)

October 7, 2021 | Off-Broadway, pass over, sanctuary city > | "Sanctuary City", Austin Smith, Caitlin Sullivan, Isabella Byrd, Jasai Chase-Owens, Joan Marcus, Lucille Lortel Theatre, Martyna Majok, Merrick A.B. Williams, Mikaal Sulaiman, New York Theatre Workshop, Rebecca Frecknall, Sharlene Cruz, Tom Scutt

Since the controversy started about the destiny of so called “dreamers” and immigration moved to the forefront of the political spectrum, theatre has become a formidable platform, revealing the many obstacles that face these innocent victims. What has also developed is the now familiar phrase “sanctuary city.” A city that limits its cooperation with federal immigration enforcement agents, to protect…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Skin of our Teeth” at Theatre for New Audience’s Polonsky Shakespeare Center

March 3, 2017 | Off-Broadway, sanctuary city > | Arin Arbus, Brooklyn, Fredric March, Helen Hayes, Mary Martin, Polonsky Shakespeare Center, Pulitzer Prize, Skin of Our Teeth, Tallulah Bankhead, Theatre for New Audience, Thornton Wilder

If ever there was an allegorical play, this is it. Thornton Wilder’s “The Skin of Our Teeth” was written in 1942, won the Pulitzer Prize, had two apparently great productions on Broadway – starring the likes of Mary Martin, Tallulah Bankhead, Fredric March and Helen Hayes—then poorly received ones, and subsequently was deemed extremely difficult to pull off. Well, Theatre…

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“Hand to God” at the Booth Theatre (Transferring to London, Played Final Broadway Performance January 3, 2016)

April 16, 2015 | Broadway, hand to god, sanctuary city > | "Hand to God", Booth Theatre

“Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.” Sigmund Freud, from “New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis,” 1932 There are soliloquies. There are asides. These are two dramatic conventions that allow the audience to know what an actor is thinking and feeling without the other actors on stage knowing….

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