“My sense is that American character lives not in one place or the other,” playwright Anna Deavere Smith writes in her introduction to her Pulitzer Prize-finalist play Fires in the Mirror, “but in the gaps between the places, and in our struggle to be together in our differences.” In this phenomenal play, now at Profile […]
1991 Crown Heights Riots, Anna Deavere Smith, Bobby Bermea, Brooklyn, contemporary ethnic turmoil, Crown Heights, Fires in the Morror, interviews, Lubavitchers, plays about race and ethnicity, Profile Theatre, racial discrminiation, racial violence, Seth RueWe are the secretaries and we do things secretarial And once a month we kill a guy and cut him up for burial It’s a slasher play. It’s a comedy. No, it’s a black and bloody satire. It’s over the top. And it’s dangerous–particularly if one is a lumberjack in Big Bone, Oregon. It’s […]
Andrea White, Babs Davy, Claire Rigsby, dark comedy, Dawn Monique Williams, Dominique Dibbell, drama, homopobia, homosexuality, Jamie M. Rea, Jen Rowe, Kelly Godell, Lisa Kron, lumberjacks, Maureen Angelos, Meg Wilkerson, misogyny, Peg Healey, Profile Theatre, satire, The Five Lesbian Brothers, The Secretaries, Wanda WaldenIn 2.5 Minute Ride, now onstage at Profile Theatre, playwright Lisa Kron takes a slice of her own life and builds it into something universal. Each summer, the Kron family faithfully visited Cedar Point Amusement Park in Sandusky, Ohio, to ride the rollercoasters. Not everybody rode the rollercoasters. But Lisa and her father did–even when he […]
2.5 Minute Ride, Allison MIckelson, Anna Deavere Smith, Auschwitz, Cedar Point Amusement Park, drama, Holocaust survivors, humor, Jane Unger, Lesbian playwrights, Lisa Kron, live theatre, Profile Theatre, roller coasters, The HolocaustWhen 15-year-old Olivia (Alex Ramirez de Cruz) storms out on her father Aaron (Chris Harder) and his wife Deborah, the only person she can turn to is her mother, Beatriz (Julana Torres). The two barely know each other, as Aaron was awarded full custody of Olivia when he and Beatriz separated eight years ago. Quiara Alegria […]
26 Miles, Alex Ramirez de Cruz, Chris Harder, drama, family drama, female playwright, Jimmy Garcia, Josh Hecht, Julana Torres, Profile Theatre, Profile Theatre Diversity and Inclusion Initiative, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Quiara Alegrea Hudes, Rebecca Martinez, road tripLewis (Victor Mack) is having a terrible night. A sleepless night. As Tanya Barfield’s signature play, Blue Door, opens on the Profile Theatre stage, Lewis pops up from bed and begins pacing around the room. His white wife (Lewis is black) has left him after 25 years of marriage and has filed for divorce. He […]
Blue Door, Jim Crow, Million Man March, Profile Theatre, racism in America, slavery, Tanya Barfield