Topic: Leigh Silverman

East meets West in David Henry Hwang's 'Chinglish'

NY Daily News - 108 days ago
In David Henry Hwang's Broadway comedy, "Chinglish," a Cleveland sign-maker eagerly, if somewhat naively, treks to China to expand his family...

Veteran playwright brings modern twist to ancient play

NY Daily News - 305 days ago
This is kind of a weird play," announces the actor portraying Bernard, a dramatist, in "Go Back to Where You Are." The term "fantastical" also...

Coraline

Time Out New York - 985 days ago
" Such is the advice that Coraline, nine years old, receives at a key moment in her struggle against the witch next door. If only Coraline, the musical that bears her name, could follow it! But watching Coraline is a frustrating experience, precisely ...

Theater

Time Out New York - 992 days ago
If you haven't already heard of Coraline-the plucky preteen who faces down wicked powers prowling in her own home-then I envy you on your recent decade-long nap. Eeyore-ish genius Stephin Merritt (animus of the Magnetic Fields and other morose pop entities ...

Beebo Brinker Chronicles

Time Out New York - 1404 days ago
In putting Ann Bannon's lesbian pulp series-known as the Beebo Brinker Chronicles-onstage, Linda S. Chapman and Kate Moira Ryan should be playing with fire. In the '50s, Bannon's soap-opera tales of the love that dared not speak its name (at ...