Caryl Churchill

Off-Broadway Review: “The Possibilities” and “The After-Dinner Joke” at Atlantic Stage 2

August 2, 2018 | fern hill off broadway, Off-Broadway > | “The After-Dinner Joke”, “The Possibilities”, Adam Milano, Atlantic Stage 2, Caryl Churchill, Cheryl Faraone, Christopher Marshall, Eliza Renner, Howard Barker, Jonathan Tindle, Kathleen Wise, Madeleine Russell, Marianne Tatum, OXFAM, PTP/NYC, Richard Romagnoli, Tara Giordano

PTP/NYC’s thirty-second season includes two plays by the company’s “usual suspects.” The double bill, currently running at Atlantic Stage 2, includes four of the ten short plays in Howard Barker’s 1987 “The Possibilities” and Caryl Churchill’s 1977 “The After-Dinner Joke.” Both offerings invite the audience to grapple with provocative content that often seems elusive and controversial and that raises numerous…

Off-Broadway Review: “Light Shining in Buckinghamshire” Muses Successfully on Revolution at New York Theatre Workshop

In an October 17, 2015 “New York Post” article, Michael Goodwin raises the rich, albeit uncomfortable, proposition of James Piereson in his July 2015 book “Shattered Consensus: The Rise and Decline of America’s Postwar Political Order;” namely, “America is due for a revolution.” In the “Post” article, Mr. Goodwin summarizes Mr. Pierson’s argument thusly: “there is an inevitable “revolution” coming…