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2012 Stories by Alexis Soloski

• pool (no water)

  published May 9, 2012

  Dive into the American premiere of this Mark Ravenhill play, originally commissioned by the notable British company Frantic Assembly. Ianthe Demos... More >>

• Title and Deed

  published May 9, 2012

  Attempting to describe Pulitzer finalist Will Eno's plays is a futile exercise. Thom Paine: A man talks for a while. Middletown:... More >>

• February House

  published May 9, 2012

  Long fallen to the wrecking ball, 7 Middagh Street once housed a remarkable domestic experiment. Its renters included W.H. Auden, Carson... More >>

• Rapture, Blister, Burn

  published May 9, 2012

  First-wave feminism succeeded to second, second to third. But Gina Gionfriddo’s new play shows four women (and one man) are still high and... More >>

• Medieval Play

  published May 9, 2012

  The Papal Schism of 1378! What, that doesn’t strike you as surefire comedic material? Then you, apparently, have little in common with... More >>

• Cock

  published May 9, 2012

  Like last season’s The Motherfucker with the Hat, Mike Bartlett’s searching comedy drama about erotic identity ought to have... More >>

• The Common Pursuit

  published May 9, 2012

  The Roundabout Theater stages a college reunion with a revival of this 1984 Simon Gray drama about the intersecting lives of artsy Cambridge... More >>

• A Midsummer Night's Dream Heads Back Into the Woods

  published May 2, 2012

  Lord, what fools these mortals be! With the wealth of old and new playscripts cluttering drama libraries, why do so many productions return to... More >>

• An Early History of Fire Goes on the Road to 1962

  published April 25, 2012

  Some theater companies favor certain kinds of sets: well-appointed parlors, say, or barren wastelands or classical porticoes. But the New Group... More >>

• Borrowed Prey

  published April 25, 2012

  You could call it dinner theater, but that would presume that you like your dinner raw. Carrie Ahern sets her solo show, authored with Temple... More >>

• Quiara Alegria Hudes: An Interview With the 2012 Pulitzer Winner

  published April 18, 2012

  On Monday, the playwright Quiara Alegria Hudes switched on her phone, which she’d silenced for several hours while leading a writing... More >>

• Three Sisters: That's Some Good Despair

  published April 18, 2012

  Maly Drama’s staging, in Russian, of Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters, at BAM’s Harvey Theater, includes a pillow fight,... More >>

• Lunatic Cunning Talks Plant Dirty

  published April 11, 2012

  How many performance artists does it take to change a light bulb? At the close of Lunatic Cunning, his pleasantly oddball show at Dixon... More >>

• Spoon River Anthology

  published April 11, 2012

  Spoon River was a very small town, but director Jimmy Maize’s re-envisioning of the Edgar Lee Masters’s poem cycle is a very big play.... More >>

• Pinocchio's Ashes

  published April 11, 2012

  So much for being a real boy. The Scandinavian American Theatre Company presents Danish playwright Jokum Rohde’s “philosophical... More >>

• The Ash Girl

  published April 11, 2012

  Don’t expect to see much in the way of pumpkins and party dresses in Timberlake Wertenbaker’s adaptation of the Cinderella story,... More >>

• Christopher Marlowe's Chloroform Dreams

  published April 11, 2012

  Marlowe. Chris Marlowe. Playwright Katherine Sherman recasts the famed Elizabethan playwright (and possible secret agent) as a private dick, with... More >>

• Lonely, I'm Not

  published April 11, 2012

  Shy, Weitz isn’t. Though his earlier plays have received middling reviews, Weitz has returned with a new script and a pair of young and... More >>

• Education Class Action Listings

  published April 4, 2012

  Theater and Performing Arts If you're hoping to make a theatrical splash but aren't sure how to get your feet wet, consider the two-day... More >>

• The Morini Strad Plays a Standard

  published April 4, 2012

  Manhattan criminals have a lucrative sideline in Stradivarius thefts. In 1994, miscreants lifted a violin from an idle Rolls Royce. In 2002,... More >>

• Spring Guide 2012: The Public Theater Hosts the Musical February House

  published March 28, 2012

  In 2006, the songwriter Gabriel Kahane took a walk through Brooklyn Heights and passed the fruit streets—Pineapple, Orange,... More >>

• Regrets Lights Out for the West

  published March 28, 2012

  As late as 2010, New Yorkers wishing to end their marriage had to show cause—proving cruelty, abandonment, or adultery. New York held out... More >>

• The U.K. Way: A Week of London Theater

  published March 21, 2012

  To spend a week at theater in London is to consider having your eyes examined. (And to contemplate a visit to an ENT, as well.) Call it... More >>

• An Iliad: Homer a Hit?

  published March 14, 2012

  Sing in me, Muse, and through me offer a review of the man skilled in many ways. Well, the men, actually, Denis O'Hare and Stephen Spinella,... More >>

• The Agony and the Ecstasy of Mike Daisey

  published March 14, 2012

  Can a play ever be too truthful? The Pulitzer committee once thought so. In 1994, it disallowed Anna Deavere-Smith’s Twilight: Los... More >>