Review: ‘Awake and Sing’
The insular day-to-day trauma affecting a working class Jewish family in the Bronx during the Depression was powerfully dramatized by Clifford Odets in his...
Exposing the Dark Underbelly of the Human Condition
‘This festival is about what it is to be human,” says Pamela Groves, youth services librarian and coordinator of the 2006 Princeton Human Rights...
In Your Face Dance
Bill T. Jones hardly ever makes dances that are merely pretty to look at. His audiences are more likely to be confronted with words...
Not Nancy Drew but Close Enough
When Nina Totenberg was growing up in Scarsdale, New York, she wanted to be Nancy Drew, intrepid teenage detective and heroine of the beloved...
What Does a Family’s Worst-Case Scenario Look Like?
In 1981, Beth Henley, then 28, hit it big with her first full-length play, “Crimes of the Heart.” Opening on Broadway at the John...