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Broadway Review: “The Roommate” at the Booth Theatre (Currently On)

October 22, 2024 | Broadway, LGBTQ+, Queer > | "The Roommate", Bob Crowley (set & costume design), Jack O’Brien, Jen Silverman, Joseph Verlezza, LGBTQ, Matthew Murphy, Mia Farrow, Mikaal Sulaiman (sound design), Natasha Katz (Lighting Design), New York Theatre Reviews, Patti LuPone, Theatre Reviews, Theatre Reviews Limited

It has been a long journey for “The Roommate,” the dark comedy by Jen Silverman, to finally arrive on Broadway since its premiere in 2015 at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, Humana Festival. It was well worth the wait, since the current production now playing at The Booth Theatre stars Mia Farrow and Patti LuPone in a two hander that…

Off-Broadway Review: “Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties” at MCC Theater’s Lucille Lortel Theatre

By agreeing to carefully examine the sex-role stereotypes attributed to women, five disparate women named ‘Betty’ cautiously approach self-acceptance and self-understanding in Jen Silverman’s “Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties” at MCC Theater’s Lucille Lortel Theatre. Their collective rage about their loneliness, their fears, their submission, and their dismissions by men is a welcomed examination of gender and sexual…