Elizabeth Canavan

Off-Broadway Review: “Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven” at Atlantic Theatre Company’s Linda Gross Theatre

The epic new work penned by Stephen Adly Guirgis entitled “Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven” refers to the vast array of residents in a transitional shelter for women on the upper Westside of Manhattan. It is a motley group of misfits of every age, race, size, color and sexual status that seem to have a firm grip on the…

Off-Broadway Review: “Devil of Choice” Falters at LAByrinth Theater Company at Cherry Lane’s Studio Theatre

May 29, 2018 | Off-Broadway > | "Devil of Choice", "Faust", Cherry Lane Theater, Daniel Melnick, David Zayas, David Zayas Jr., Elizabeth Canavan, Florencia Lozano, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Kia Rogers, LAByrinth Theater Company, Lara De Bruijn, Maggie Diaz Bofill, Megan Tomei, Melisa McGregor, Raul Abrego, Shira-Lee Shalit

“Faustian bargain: (idiomatic) A deal in which one focuses on present gain without considering the long-term consequences.” Although one of the characters in the new play “Devil of Choice,” produced by Labyrinth Theater Company at the Cherry Lane Studio Theatre, is a popular professor whose highly sought-after class focuses on “Faust,” he certainly disregards the implications associated with violating morality….