Jonathan Tindle

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: “Arcadia” at PTP/NYC at Atlantic Stage 2

“I’m the kind of person who embarks on an endless leapfrog down the great moral issues. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut the refutation. Forever. Endlessly.” – Tom Stoppard in an Interview with Mel Gussow about “The Real Inspector Hound,” “New York Times,” April 26, 1972 Apparently, Tom Stoppard practices what he preaches. The type…

Off-Broadway Review: “Pity in History” at PTP/NYC at Atlantic Stage 2

“Turning and turning in the widening gyre/The falcon cannot hear the falconer;/Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;/Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,/The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere/The ceremony of innocence is drowned;/The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.” – “The Second Coming,” W.B. Yeats “Pity in History,” currently running at PTP/NYC 2016…