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Playwrights Horizons

On the Culture Front: Ben Howard, Punch Brothers, Belleville, The Flick and more

Chris Kompanek | Posted 03.26.2013 | New York
Read More: Sam Gold, The Flick, Belleville, Kneehigh Theatre, Chris Thile, Mumford & Sons, Annie Baker, BLT Prime, 930 Club, Classic Car Club, St. Ann's Warehouse, Playwrights Horizons, The Doe Fund, Ben Howard, The Cupcake Bartender, The Dalloway, New York Theatre Workshop, Punch Brothers, Amy Herzog, New York News
Chris Kompanek

It's been a packed month of culture. I finally made it down to the Barclays Center for Mumford and Sons, and the weekend before I caught one of my favorite bluegrass-based acts, The Punch Brothers.

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First Nighter: Annie Baker's Flick Delves Deep Into Lasting Silver-screen Effects

David Finkle | Posted 05.12.2013 | Arts
Read More: Annie Baker, Playwrights Horizons, Louisa Krause, Aaron-Clifton-Moten, The-Flick, Matthew Maher, Arts News
David Finkle

Is there anything wrong with The Flick? I've wracked my brain to see if anything is, and I've come up with one glaring lapse: There's no broken seat.

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Theater: "Great God Pan" Makes Some Sweet Music

Michael Giltz | Posted 02.19.2013 | Entertainment
Read More: Amy-Herzog, Freaks and Geeks, Off-Broadway, Playwrights Horizons, Video, Entertainment News
Michael Giltz

THE GREAT GOD PAN ** 1/2 out of **** PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZON Amy Herzog's play has opened to strong reviews and an immediate extension and no wonder: she...

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First Nighter: Lisa d'Amour's Motor City Tragi-Comedy Detroit Needs Bodywork

David Finkle | Posted 09.18.2012 | Arts
Read More: Democratic National Convention, The New York Times, Mitt Romney, "Detroit." Lisa D'Amour, Playwrights Horizons, National Theatre, Barack Obama, Pulitzer Prize, Anne Kauffman, David Schwimmer, Louisa Thompson, Darren Pettie, Sarah Sokolovic, Amy Ryan, Republican National Convention, Charles Isherwood, Detroit, Arts News
David Finkle

D'Amour's intentions might be accepted, and even applauded, if she supported her characters with three-dimensional grounding. But here's where she allows herself to believe that presenting a gloomy prediction of national spoilage is all she needs to do. (Or is she just being lazy?)

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Sharp New Comedy Takes On Internet Porn

AP | JENNIFER FARRAR | Posted 08.14.2012 | Home
Read More: Off Broadway, Theater, Rapture Blister Burn, Rapture Blister Burn Play, Rapture Blister Burn Review, Rapture Blister Burn Playwrights Horizons, Playwrights Horizons, Home News

NEW YORK — Men and women are still mating "like cave people," and modern relationships are "just an exercise in illusions." These are just a cou...

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Off-Broadway Currently Boasts an Embarrassment of Riches

Andy Propst | Posted 08.14.2012 | New York
Read More: NY Around Town, Theater, Culture, John Patrick Shanley, Atlantic Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Off-Broadway, Rapture Blister Burn, Storefront Church, Medieval Play, New York News
Andy Propst

There's an extraordinary amount of richly conceived theater available currently at some of New Yorks's institutional theaters. To help you sort out what's what, here are some brief thoughts on a trio of recently opened shows.

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Lori Fradkin

'Bachelorette' Writer On What It's Really Like To Be An Assistant

HuffingtonPost.com | Lori Fradkin | Posted 02.28.2012 | Women
Read More: Off-Broadway, Assistance, Leslye Headland, Virginia Kull, Theater, New York Theater, Sundance, Weinstein Company, Michael Esper, Playwrights Horizons, Bachelorette, Women News

When the raunchy "Bachelorette" debuted at Sundance this year, audiences were quick to note that, yes, the comparisons to "Bridesmaids" were inevitabl...

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Assistance at Playwrights Horizons

Rochelle Jewel Shapiro | Posted 04.14.2012 | Arts
Read More: Leslye Headland, Michael-Esper, Playtime, Lucas Near-Verbrugghe, Assistance, Playwrights Horizons, Arts News
Rochelle Jewel Shapiro

We all know them -- the beleaguered corporate assistants who are giving up any hope of personal time, relationships and sanity, all for the overriding ambition to be the next CEO, or at least have a better job title, or maybe, just maybe a raise.

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'Detroit' Goes Off-Broadway

AP | Posted 02.12.2012 | Detroit
Read More: Broadway, Lisa Damour Detroit, Theater, Video, Detroit Play, Lisa D'amour, Playwrights Horizons, Detroit Lisa Damour, Detroit News

NEW YORK — Playwright Lisa D'Amour will have to wait a little longer for her Broadway debut. The off-Broadway company Playwrights Horizons said...

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Theater: "Maple And Vine" Finds The Future Is...Back In The Year 1955

Michael Giltz | Posted 02.07.2012 | Entertainment
Read More: Jordan Harrison, Off-Broadway, Theater, Maple and Vine, Jeanine Serralles, Playwrights Horizons, Video, Entertainment News
Michael Giltz

MAPLE AND VINE ** PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZON Jordan Harrison's new play is very high concept, a sort of Pleasantville for real. You've heard of Civil War re...

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On the Culture Front: When America Doesn't Have Talent: The Story of the Shaggs

Chris Kompanek | Posted 08.08.2011 | New York
Read More: Off-Broadway, Peter Friedman, The Shaggs, Musical Theater, Playwrights Horizons, New York News
Chris Kompanek

Gunnar Madsen, Joy Gregory, and John Langs' new musical, The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World, takes its name both from the real life New Hampshire gir...

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David Moye

You Don't Know What Bad Is Until You Listen To The Shaggs

HuffingtonPost.com | David Moye | Posted 11.15.2011 | Weird News
Read More: Wiggin Sisters, Shaggs, Video, Outsider Music, Shaggs Stage Musical, Irwin Chusid, Shaggs Fan Frank Zappa, Austin Wiggin, Philosophy of the World Worst Album, Shaggs Worst Band of All Time, Shaggs Fan Bonnie Raitt, Playwrights Horizons, Shaggs Fan Kurt Cobain, Weird News News

When Dorothy, Betty and Helen Wiggin, three teenage sisters from Fremont, N.H., went into a recording studio on March 9, 1969, they had no idea that t...

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On the Culture Front: Big Apple Rock & Roll Circus and A Small Fire

Chris Kompanek | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Reed Birney, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Nick Zimmer, Michele Pawk, David Bowie, Adam Bock, Manhattan Theatre Club, Circus, Playwrights Horizons, New York News
Chris Kompanek

The Rock & Roll Circus that took over the Big Apple's tent at Lincoln center last Monday and Tuesday night was heavy on rock and light on circus. Tues...

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On the Culture Front: Pavement Reunion, Of Montreal, Me, Myself, and I, The Little Foxes, and the Moth

Chris Kompanek | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: New York Theater Workshop, Steve Burns, Lillian Hellman, Summerstage, Brian Murray, Of Montreal, Playboy, Playwrights Horizons, New York, The Players Club, Elizabeth Ashley, The Moth, Ivo Van Hove, Pavement, Blue's Clues, Edward Albee, New York News
Chris Kompanek

Ivo Van Hove's The Little Foxes is an absolute masterpiece. It's the reason we go to the theater.

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