Lucy Kirkwood

Off-Broadway Review: “The Welkin” Never Comes to a Verdict at Atlantic Theater Company (Through Sunday, July 7, 2024)

June 28, 2024 | Uncategorized > | "The Welkin", Ahron R. Foster, Amanda Spooner, Ann Harada, Atlantic Theater Company, casting by The Telsey Office, costumes by Kaye Voyce, Dale Soules, Danny Wolohan, David Roberts, Destiny Lilly, Emily Cass McDonnell, Glenn Fitzgerald, Hair & Wigs by Cookie Jordan, Haley Wong, Hannah Cabell, intimacy direction by Crista Marie Jackson, Jennifer Nikki Kidwell, lights by Stacey Derosier, Linda Gross Theater, Lucy Kirkwood, MacKenzie Mercer, makeup by Gabrielle Vincent, Mary McCann, movement by David Neumann, Nadine Malouf, New York Theatre Reviews, Paige Gilbert, Sandra Oh, Sarah Benson, sets by dots, Simone Recasner, sound by Palmer Hefferan, special effects by Jeremy Chernick, Susannah Perkins, Telsey + Co/Karyn Casl, Theatre Reviews, Theatre Reviews Limited, Tilly Botsford

Twenty-one-year-old Sally Poppy (a powerful yet broken Haley Wong) is convicted of murdering young Alice Wax and sentenced to hang in March of 1759 on the border of Norfolk and Suffolk, in England. Sally claims she is pregnant and if that is true, she cannot be hanged. To determine the truth of Sally’s claim, the Justice “calls for a jury…

Broadway Review: “The Children” at Manhattan Theatre Club at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre

January 26, 2018 | back the future, Broadway > | "The Children", Deborah Findlay, Francesca Annis, James Macdonald, Lucy Kirkwood, Manhattan Theatre Club, Ron Cook, Samuel J. Friedman Theatre

“Yes exactly. I would’ve felt like a traitor. Besides, retired people are like nuclear power stations. We like to live by the sea.” – Hazel to Rose The success of “The Children,” currently playing at Manhattan Theatre Club at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, is primarily the result of playwright Lucy Kirkwood’s effective and judicious use of tropes, particularly the…