Email Author Miriam Felton-Dansky

2013 Stories by Miriam Felton-Dansky

• The Film Society Can't Quite Make the Leap From Past to Present

  published October 2, 2013

  What happens to a political play that's three decades old? Can it keep its emotional charge, or does it wither when its social relevance fades?... More >>

• Nature Theater of Oklahoma's Latest Movingly Illustrates a Sexual Awakening

  published September 25, 2013

  Nature Theater of Oklahoma’s Life and Times: Episodes 4.5 and 5—at this year’s Crossing the Line Festival—are... More >>

• Lucy Thurber's Five-Play Cycle Examines Poverty's Impact

  published September 11, 2013

  Being from Western Massachusetts myself, I was excited to sample The Hill Town Plays, Lucy Thurber's cycle of five dramas set amid the... More >>

• The Cheaters Club: Southern Discomfort

  published August 28, 2013

  An Italian guy, a gay guy, a black guy, and a girl show up in Savannah looking for action. If that sounds like the setup for a bad joke, it... More >>

• Love's Labour's Lost: Higher Education

  published August 14, 2013

  Four ladies, four dudes, some wacky clowns, and lots of wordplay—sounds like a foolproof formula for Shakespearean comedy, right? In the... More >>

• The Comedy of Errors Serves Up Midcentury Mayhem; The Explorers Club Doesn't Discover Much

  published June 26, 2013

  What lies along the bus route from Syracuse to Schenectady? In the Public Theater's cheerful Comedy of Errors—now playing in... More >>

• A Kid Like Jake Is Enough to Make a Well-meaning Family Implode

  published June 19, 2013

  Forget potty-training, teenage drama, and the SATs: as any discerning New York parent knows, the trickiest part of child-rearing is getting... More >>

• Marcellus Shale's Generations Clash Over Land Rights and Ominous Fracking

  published June 5, 2013

  Would you let gas companies drill beneath your yard, if it meant a payout so huge you'd never have to work again? Your answer might surprise... More >>

• City Council Meeting: Going Through the Motions

  published May 8, 2013

  Ever fancy yourself a politician? Perhaps a much-beloved mayor, or a city councilor staunchly shepherding your hometown along? If so, seize the... More >>

• La Ruta: Rough Crossing

  published April 17, 2013

  This spring, Congress is yet again taking up the debate over immigration reform. And for every day politicians spend arguing over the fate of... More >>

• Neva: Sunday Bloody Sunday

  published March 13, 2013

  What to do when your husband is dead, a revolution is raging in the streets—and your new monologue just isn’t working? In... More >>

• Jackie: First Lady Problems

  published March 6, 2013

  She clambers up through a trap door, emerging onstage with a collection of tatty faceless dummies in tow. They’re swathed in duct tape, and... More >>

• Jesus Christ, Punk Superstar

  published February 20, 2013

  Jesus was, by most accounts, the original hippie—sporting long hair and sandals, and spreading peace and love among Jews and Romans... More >>

• The House of Von Macramé Cuts Itself with Clichés

  published January 30, 2013

  Actors, beware the curtain call that requires you to wade through puddles of blood. So treacherous is the Bushwick Starr's stage at the end of... More >>

• Life and Times: So This Is Growing Up

  published January 23, 2013

  What genre is your life story? Were your teenage years a murder mystery? Did your preschool comrades resemble a communist youth group, performing... More >>