What if happiness was not only a choice, but a side effect? That’s the intriguing premise of Deborah Zoe Laufer’s play Be Here Now, which she also directs with depth and quirky humor at Everyman Theatre in a production that brightens the gloom and gray of midwinter with a joyful reminder to live in the […]

If breakups were only confined to the couple in question, life would be easier. Throw friends, children, potential new partners into the mix and it really takes a village to visit Splitsville with the inevitable detour into Crazy Town. Playwright Donald Margulies won the Pulitzer in 2000 for Dinner with Friends, his rueful and sad-funny […]

We quickly learn that Everything Is Wonderful is Amish shorthand for “Shut your pie hole, I beg you.” But you wouldn’t want to miss a single plainspoken word of this magnificent, wholehearted play by Chelsea Marcantel that delves into the barbed nature of forgiveness and surrender to pain and grief and whether or not it […]

Bright as a boutonniere, Everyman’s production of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest is a strutting peacock of a show that portrays the mores of Victorian society with a swinging trip down Carnaby Street. Hip, groovy and where it’s at are words you don’t normally associate with the sublime aesthete Oscar Wilde, but director […]

The white-hot rage and caustic bitterness against de-industrialization, unemployment, minorities, and immigrants, not to mention races and religions other than white and Christian, may have escalated in the Trump administration, but it didn’t start in 2016.

“We’ll wait and see.” Normally, words of prudence and patience.  In the context of Karen Hartman’s intense epistolary play, The Book of Joseph, the words are a chilling death sentence.