Email Author Tom Sellar

2010 Stories by Tom Sellar

• Baby Universe Aims for the Stars

  published December 8, 2010

  Who will save our galaxy? An evil (but dying) Sun has a long-term plan to devour all the planets, assisted by the Moon, Jupiter, Mercury, and... More >>

• The Collection and A Kind of Alaska--a Night Out With Harold Pinter

  published December 1, 2010

  If you think your mornings are rough, try waking up after 29 years in a coma. In A Kind of Alaska, a 1982 one-act by Harold Pinter now... More >>

• That Hopey Changey Thing Takes Aim at the Liberal Intelligentsia

  published November 10, 2010

  That Hopey Changey Thing, a new play written and directed by Richard Nelson for the Public Theater Lab, attempts to show how individual... More >>

• The Ring Cycle (Part 1 + 2) Brings Wagner to Bushwick

  published October 20, 2010

  Oktoberfest flowed and the bratwurst was free the night I caught The Ring Cycle (Part 1 + 2), an alternative dramatic version of... More >>

• Dramatis Personae Brings the Psychodrama From Peru

  published October 13, 2010

  Five little words—"based on a true story"—can either stir your heart or make it sink when you see them on a theater marquee.... More >>

• Belgium Brings the Avant-Garde, Probably No Waffles

  published September 29, 2010

  Sometimes it seems like the avant-garde moved to Flanders and set up an official world headquarters—at least for experimental... More >>

• Roadkill Confidential Aims for a Touch of Evil

  published September 22, 2010

  Sheila Callaghan's imagination has turned noir—very noir. Roadkill Confidential, her new drama, pays playful homage to the shadowy... More >>

• Ivo Van Hove Stages Pasolini on Governors Island

  published July 20, 2010

  In Pier Paolo Pasolini's 1968 film Teorema, an attractive young stranger arrives at the home of a wealthy Italian industrialist. The... More >>

• Order's Skill Set Also Includes Violence

  published June 29, 2010

  PharmaCo's sad-sack secretary, Tom Blander, could use a little bit of its new drug ProzaCan. The drug promises "the power to perform"—and... More >>

• Zombie Joe Takes on A Midsummer Night's Dream

  published June 1, 2010

  When you hear that someone called Zombie Joe is adapting and directing a Shakespeare play, how can you not envision the Bard gone horror film?... More >>

• Try to Forgive the Yuppies of Parents' Evening

  published May 11, 2010

  Mommy and Daddy are having a big fight again. Judy (Julianne Nicholson) comes home tired from the office every day because she's a corporate... More >>

• Big Art Group Celebrates 10 Years of Multimedia Weird

  published April 13, 2010

  Caden Manson wants you to know that Flesh Tone, Big Art Group's new multimedia performance, does not end with the destruction of the... More >>

• Lev Dodin Brings His Uncle Vanya to BAM

  published March 30, 2010

  When he takes on Anton Chekhov's plays, the master Russian director Lev Dodin doesn't worry about unearthing new aspects of the beloved... More >>

• Brack's Last Bachelor Party Remains Better Left to the Imagination

  published March 9, 2010

  Henrik Ibsen threw the wildest party in Western drama, but his audience wasn't invited—it takes place between the acts of Hedda... More >>

• Mark Ravenhill Helps Bette Bourne Look Back in A Life in Three Acts

  published March 2, 2010

  When the legendary performer Bette Bourne mentioned to a much younger friend, the playwright Mark Ravenhill, that he'd lived in a "drag... More >>

• Sounding, Inspired by Ibsen, Could Use His Depth

  published February 23, 2010

  Grieving for her deceased infant, the alluring Leda (Okwui Okpokwasili) passes her days gazing at the Cape Cod seashore. In the waves, she... More >>

• A Tale of Three Generations of Irish Women: Elaine Murphy's Little Gem

  published January 12, 2010

  Amber's a fun-loving girl with a problem. The 19-year-old Dubliner likes a bit of "craic" and goes out most nights drinking and dancing with... More >>

• The City's Best (And Not So Best) Progressive Theater

  published January 5, 2010

  Ten years into the 21st century, it seems a fitting time to look at the state of New York City's theatrical avant-garde. How has it evolved... More >>