Laura Smith | Theatre Reviews Limited

Off-Broadway Review: “Morning Sun” at Manhattan Theatre Club at New York City Center – Stage I (Closed Sunday December 19, 2021)

November 22, 2021 | a delicate, a man of, Off-Broadway, pass over > | "Morning Sun", Blair Brown, Daniel Kluger, dot, Edie Falco, Kaye Voyce, Lap Chi Chu, Laura Smith, Lee Kinney, Lila Neugebauer, Manhattan Theatre Club, Marin Ireland, Michael Murphy, New York City Center Stage I, Simon Stephens, Tom Watson

“I’m very scared. I’m very confused it’s very bright here please just tell me whether or not I am safe.” These are among the first words spoken by Charley McBride (an ethereal and impassioned Edie Falco) in Simon Stephens’s “Morning Sun” currently running at Manhattan Theatre Club at New York City Center – Stage I. Charley is surrounded by her…

Off-Broadway Review: “Dying City” at Second Stage Theater’s Tony Kiser Theater

June 10, 2019 | 2st dying city, kiser mail, LGBTQ+, Off-Broadway > | "Dying City", 9/11, Bray Poor, Christopher Shinn, Colin Woodell, Diane Laffrey, Iraq War, Joan Marcus, Kaye Voyce, Laura Smith, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Tyler Micoleau

With renewed concerns about an escalation of conflict in Iraq and the possibility of a new war initiative there, one would tend to believe that the revival of Christopher Shinn’s “Dying City,” currently playing at Second Stage’s Tony Kiser Theater, would provide new insights into the earlier Iraq War and its effects on the soldiers who served here and on…