what the constitution

Off-Broadway Review: “Heroes of the Fourth Turning” at Playwrights Horizons Mainstage Theater

October 25, 2019 | laura beth, Off-Broadway, what the constitution > | "Heroes of the Fourth Turning", Danya Taymor, Isabella Byrd, J. David Brimmer, Jeb Kreager, Jenny Kennedy, Joan Marcus, John Zdrojeski, Julia McDermott, Justin Ellington, Laura Jellinek, Michele Pawk, Playwrights Horizons, Sarafina Bush, Will Arbery, Zoë Winters

Three Gen Y Conservative Christians gather at Justin’s (a thoughtful and broken Jeb Kraeger) backyard in Lander, Wyoming to celebrate Generation X Gina’s (a confident and willful Michelle Pawk) inauguration as president of Transfiguration College of Wyoming. These “heroes” are preparing for a battle of Armageddon-like proportions. They do not simply disagree with those infidels on the left: they despise…

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Broadway News: “What the Constitution Means to Me” Comes to Broadway at the Helen Hayes Theater

January 14, 2019 | Broadway, hadestown, hamlet, News, what the constitution > | “What the Constitution Means to Me”, Clubbed Thumb, Heidi Schreck, Helen Hayes Theater, Jen Schriever, Michael Krass, Mike Iveson, New York Theatre Workshop, Oliver Butler, Rachel Hauck, Rosdely Ciprian, Sinan Zafar, Thursday Williams, True Love

The Clubbed Thumb, True Love, and New York Theatre Workshop production of What the Constitution Means to Me will come to Broadway this spring for a 12-week limited engagement, beginning performances at the Helen Hayes Theater (240 W 44th Street, New York, NY) on March 14, 2019, with opening night scheduled for March 31. Heidi Schreck’s timely and galvanizing play, directed by Oliver Butler, became a sensation off-Broadway…

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Off-Broadway Review: “What the Constitution Means to Me” Reopened at The Greenwich House Theater

After greeting the audience at New York Theatre Workshop, playwright Heidi Schreck introduces her play “What the Constitution Means to Me” as follows: “When I was 15 years old, I travelled the country giving speeches about the Constitution at American Legion halls for prize money. This was a scheme invented by my mom, who was a debate coach, to help…

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Off-Broadway Review: “A Blanket of Dust” at the Flea Theater Mainstage

“All they need now is to find an enemy.” – Senator Walter Crane in “A Blanket of Dust” After her husband Sam was killed (murdered?) when the North Tower of the World Trade Center collapsed on September 11, 2001, Diane Crane (Angela Pierce) becomes appropriately obsessed with finding out who was responsible for the destruction of the Towers. Unconvinced that…

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Broadway Review: “Lobby Hero” Crackles the Conscience at Second Stage’s Hayes Theatre

April 10, 2018 | Broadway, constitution, girlfriend, what the constitution > | "Lobby Hero", Bel Powley, Brian Tyree Henry, Chris Evans, Darron L. West, David Rockwell, Helen Hayes Theatre, Japhy Weideman, Joan Marcus, Kenneth Lonergan, Michael Cera, Paloma Young, Second Stage, Telsey + Company, Trip Cullman

“I just don’t want to be one of those pathetic guys in lobbies who are always telling you about their big plans you know they’re never gonna do. I’d rather just be in the lobby and just be in the lobby. To tell you the truth, sometimes I feel like I was worn out the minute I was born.” –…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Freedom Riders: The Civil Rights Musical” at the New York Musical Festival at the Acorn Theatre at Theatre Row

Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 and subsequent years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions which ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional. The Southern states had ignored the rulings and the federal government did nothing to enforce them. The first Freedom Ride…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Nat Turner in Jerusalem” at the New York Theatre Workshop

October 3, 2016 | all i want is one night, Best Bet, constitution, Off-Broadway, slave play, the lion king, what the constitution > | New York Theatre Workshop

“Yes, and this country will either cease its injustice or it will slowly fall to ruin. Leave it while you can.” – Nat Turner The encounter between Nat Turner (played with a powerful morally ambiguous core by Phillip James Brannon), Thomas R. Gray (played with a palpable malicious intent by Rowan Vickers), and the Guard (also played by Mr. Vickers)…

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