Will Arbery

Off-Broadway Review: The New Group’s “Evanston Salt Costs Climbing” at Pershing Square Signature Center’s Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre (Closed Sunday, December 18, 2022)

If Will Arbery’s “Evanston Salt Costs Climbing were an absurdist play, its non-sense narrative might make some sense. However, this is not a “Waiting for Godot” for post-pandemic Evanston, Illinois, or a pre-recession America. Peter (a foul-mouthed and depressive Jeb Kreager) and Basil’s (an equally foul-mouthed but agreeable Ken Leung) world borders on meaningless and the play’s characters are experiencing…

Off-Broadway Review: “Heroes of the Fourth Turning” at Playwrights Horizons Mainstage Theater

October 25, 2019 | laura beth, Off-Broadway, what the constitution > | "Heroes of the Fourth Turning", Danya Taymor, Isabella Byrd, J. David Brimmer, Jeb Kreager, Jenny Kennedy, Joan Marcus, John Zdrojeski, Julia McDermott, Justin Ellington, Laura Jellinek, Michele Pawk, Playwrights Horizons, Sarafina Bush, Will Arbery, Zoë Winters

Three Gen Y Conservative Christians gather at Justin’s (a thoughtful and broken Jeb Kraeger) backyard in Lander, Wyoming to celebrate Generation X Gina’s (a confident and willful Michelle Pawk) inauguration as president of Transfiguration College of Wyoming. These “heroes” are preparing for a battle of Armageddon-like proportions. They do not simply disagree with those infidels on the left: they despise…