Topic: Christopher Shinn

Depth of a salesman

National Post, Canada - 20 days ago
THEATRE REVIEW. . Kim's Convenience, Other People. . Young Centre for the Performing Arts, Toronto. . If you're going for realism, go for it. Ken...

Mary-Louise's Bare Bum Had Me Hedda-ing for the Exits!

The New York Observer - 1104 days ago
Has a play ever been revived with more alarming frequency than Hedda Gabler (1890)? The new production, starring Mary-Louise Parker, is the fourth to be staged in New York in recent memory.Elizabeth Marvels histrionic Hedda was a downtown nutjob in Ivo ...

The laureate of intractable conflicts

Spectator, The London - 1245 days ago
Looking every inch the Brit that he isn't, American playwright Christopher Shinn takes a bite of a sandwich in a Shepherd's Bush rehearsal room on a rainy summer afternoon and confesses that, although grateful, he still finds it 'a mystery ...

White House woes in Now or Later

ThisIsLondon.co.uk - 1249 days ago
Christopher Shinn's provocative new play does not shrink from contending with big issues. The implicit question Shinn poses about the dilemma facing John, the President's gay 20-year-old son, under pressure from his father, is evaded rather than settled.. He and ...

Staying Alive in a Dying City Christopher Shinn with Mark Armstrong

The Brooklyn Rail - 1831 days ago
Christopher Shinn was born in Hartford, Connecticut and lives in New York. His first play Four premiered at London's Royal Court Theatre in 1998 and put Shinn on the map when he was 23. His subsequent plays include Other People (Royal ...