Kelly Gillespie CSA | Theatre Reviews Limited

Off-Broadway Review: Vineyard Theatre and WP Theater’s “sandblasted” at the Vineyard Theatre (Closed Sunday, March 13, 2022)

As Stacey Derosier’s lighting comes up on the stage of Charly Evon Simpson’s “sandblasted,” which is currently being co-presented by Vineyard Theatre and Women’s Project Theater at the Vineyard, Angela (a willful yet vulnerable Brittany Bellizeare) and Odessa (a confident and temperamental Marinda Anderson) slowly emerge from behind beach umbrellas (“where the sand is”). Both complain about the omnipresence of sand…

Off-Broadway Review: WP Theater/Second Stage Theater’s “Our Dear Dead Drug Lord” at the McGinn/Cazale Theater

December 22, 2019 | Off-Broadway, transl > | "Our Dear Dead Drug Lord", Alexis Scheer, Alyssa May Gold, Andrew Jean, Carmen Berkeley, Fan Zhang, Judi Lewis Ockler, Kelly Gillespie CSA, Lucrecia Briceno, Malika Samuel, McGinn/Cazale Theater, Rebecca Jimenez, Second Stage Theater, Shira Friedman Photography, Whitney White, WP Theater, Yu-Hsuan Chen

“But women only need themselves to plant seeds in hearts and minds that stab and twist when they begin to root, ensnaring us all with just a thought.” – Pablo F***ing Escobar in “My Dear Dead Drug Lord” Alexis Sheer’s “Our Dear Dead Drug Lord,” in its final days at the McGinn/Cazale Theater, is deeply disturbing and profoundly important. Co-produced…