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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…

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Off-Broadway Review: PTP/NYC’s “Brecht on Brecht” at Atlantic Stage 2

“Brecht on Brecht” the theatrical collage of works by Bertolt Brecht first compiled by George Tabori in the early 1960s is appearing at Atlantic Stage 2 in repertory with “The Possibilities” and “The After-Dinner Joke” as part of PTP/NYC’s Season 2018. This is the Potomac Theatre Project’s thirty-second season in New York City. “Brecht on Brecht” features songs and scenes…

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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…

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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…

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Off-Broadway Review: “No End of Blame: Scenes of Overcoming” at PTP/NYC 2016 at Atlantic Stage 2

July 15, 2016 | Off-Broadway > | Atlantic Stage 2, PTP/NYC

“Between my finger and my thumb/The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.” – Seamus Heaney, “Digging” “Give us a pencil. . .Somebody. . .Give us a pencil.” – Bela in “No End of Blame” The Potomac Theatre Project is celebrating its thirtieth repertory season in 2016 with ten consecutive seasons in New York City. The Company’s annual visit is…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Good” Grapples with Evil at PTP/NYC 2016 at Atlantic Stage 2

July 13, 2016 | broadway grapples, Off-Broadway, on the head of a pin > | Atlantic Stage 2, Potomac Theatre Project, PTP/NYC

“In short, it is much easier to see a thing through from the point of view of abstract principle than from that of concrete responsibility.” ― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, “Letters and Papers from Prison” When under stress, Professor John Halder (Michael Kaye) hears songs of comfort that no one else can hear. Numbed by fantasy fueled by denial – like many…

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