Circuses

The plot of this play in a nutshell: Someone has to marry someone to advance the interests of the state. But this first someone is in love with someone else. To protect itself, the state destroys that someone else, the first someone, and a bunch …

Eugene O’Neill said this play was written with “blood and tears.” He never wanted it to be set on stage. He never wanted it to be published until at least 25 years after his death. This was about his family and his life. It is …

According to conversations in the ladies’ room of Water Read Theatre, this one did not go well with American audience. It was taken for a story of a depressed middle aged woman sleeping around with anyone who would go for it. — Barely sat though that …

The story has it that Edward Albee’s parents got him for $133.30 at the adoption agency. They always talked how they wanted to return him claiming it was the worst business deal. It has never been a secret in the family which made Albee’s relationship …

Doesn’t it always feel like Manhattan with all its plenty blocks the rest of the boroughs when you think New York? So today it was a conscious attempt at Queens. Charlotte and her friend Bea were going to another Broadway show and could use a …

Two people falling for each other. They are both men. One is 17, another one is 24. They are letting this happen well aware their relationship has no future. They allow themselves to feel, knowing that the feeling might last but the relationship won’t. This movie …

Made through this one, on principle. A mute woman, an outcast, falls for an unknown creature, also an outcast. An evil guy — teeth and grimaces in place — wants to use that creature for evil purposes. Bad Russians involved, too. The woman saves the …

This was coming from the car radio — probably NPR: …women are still doing more physical work around the house but there is also mental labor…a woman is a logistics central of the house, keeping track of everything and everyone… These were not the exact …