It’s Thanksgiving Day 2000, and everyone in a certain East Village apartment are up to the task except the hostess, Ellen (Beth Thompson). She is obsessing about the results from the recent Gore vs. Bush Presidential election, which, because of Florida’s sketchy voting system, remain undecided. Not only is Ellen obsessed, in Lisa Kron’s timely […]
2000 election, Alissa Jessup, Anna Deavere Smith, Beth Thompson, Chris Murray, Danielle Weathers, drama, In the Wake, Jamie M. Rea, Jane Bement Geesman, Josh Hecht, Lisa Kron, political drama, Tamera Lyn, ThanksgivingWhen four white people–an earnest vegan, a militant new-ager, a frustrated history teacher, and a paid actress–get together to produce a culturally sensitive play about the first Thanksgiving and Native American Heritage Month…well, it gives one pause. In the World Premiere of Larissa FastHorse‘s fast-paced satire The Thanksgiving Play at Artists Repertory Theatre, four […]
Artists Repertory Theatre, Chris Harder, Claire Rigsby, Larissa FastHorse, Luan Schooler, Michael O'Connell, Native American culture, Native American Heritage Month, Native American history, Sarah Lucht, satire, school plays, Thanksgiving, The Thanksgiving PlayIt was Leo Tolstoy who said, “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Since the financial meltdown of 2008, the United States has gained a great many more unhappy families–a fact not lost on contemporary playwright Stephen Karam, whose Pulitzer Prize Finalist play The Humans is now onstage at Artists […]
2016 Tony Award Best Play, 21st Century American experience, Artists Repertory Theatre, Damaso Rodriguez, dramatic play, John San Nicolas, Luisa Sermol, Obie Award, Pulitzer Prize Finalist, Quinlan Fitzgerald, regional premiere, Robert Pescovitz, Stephen Karam, Thanksgiving, The Humans, Val Landrum, Vana O'Brien, working class milieu