Susannah Flood

Off-Broadway Review: “Liberation” Misses the Mark at the Laura Pels Theatre in the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre (Closed Sunday, March 30, 2025)

There is nothing about liberation, nor is there anything liberating in Bess Wohl’s “Liberation” currently running at the Laura Pels Theatre in the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre. There is gratuitous and unnecessary nudity on stage that requires patrons to relinquish their phones before entering the theater. That nudity is completely unnecessary: the questions raised about the characters’…

Off-Broadway Review: “Make Believe” at Second Stage’s Tony Kiser Theater

August 30, 2019 | kiser mail, LGBTQ+, Off-Broadway > | "Make Believe", Ben Stanton, Bess Wohl, Brad Heberlee, Bray Poor, Casey Hilton, David Zinn, Emilio Sosa, Harrison Fox, Joan Marcus, Justin Scribner, Kim Fischer, LGBTQ, Maren Heary, Michael Greif, Ryan Foust, Samantha Mathis, Second Stage Theater, Susannah Flood, Tony Kiser Theater

The nature-nurture psychological debate and the predestined-free will theological debate collide in Bess Wohl’s “Make Believe” currently running at Second Stage’s Tony Kiser Theater, resulting in the brave and somewhat disturbing exploration of the blurred boundaries between what is perceived to be real life and what is perceived to be make-believe. The playwright raises several enduring questions, including whether there…