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Wednesday, August 26, 2020

Beast Visit is a Beauty by Abigail Weil

Ever since the quarantine began, a joke has been circulating throughout critical discourse—ok, on Twitter—about the literature that will emerge a year, five years, a decade from now: pos…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:00AM
Saturday, August 15, 2020

Gelsey Bell’s “Cairns”: Sanctuary and Renewal in the Cemetery by Abigail Weil

I’ve never not gotten lost in Green-Wood Cemetery. One of the oldest landscaped cemeteries in these United States, Green-Wood was founded in 1838 when Brooklyn was still a mostly rural reg…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:46AM
Thursday, March 5, 2020

Haruna Lee’s “Suicide Forest” by Abigail Weil

Suicide Forest, written by and starring Haruna Lee is a trippy meditation on the extremes of Japanese culture. A joint production of Bushwick Starr and the Asian American theatre company Ma-…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 08:16PM
Thursday, February 27, 2020

Born Toulouse by Abigail Weil

To find Unmaking Toulouse-Lautrec, you will first enter through the wrong door. The production is being staged at the SoHo bar Madame X, but upstairs; go in through the main entrance and you…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:09AM
Saturday, January 25, 2020

“Ellen West” at The Prototype Festival by Abigail Weil

Two embarrassing conditions unsettled me at the top of Ellen West, the new opera by Ricky Ian Gordon based on the poem of the same name by Frank Bidart: I had to cough, and I was hungry. The…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:18PM
Thursday, January 16, 2020

“Magdalene” at Prototype Festival by Abigail Weil

What are the first words you think of when you hear the name Mary Magdalene? Prostitute? Saved? Jesus? (#)Me too. In their extraordinary new chamber opera Magdalene, part of Prototype Festiv…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:32AM
Sunday, December 15, 2019

Cosmos, Without Us by Abigail Weil

I’m a thirty-four-year-old straight woman who grew up in the suburbs with an older brother. That means I’ve spent a lot of time watching dudes play video games. I thought those days were…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:50AM
Thursday, November 14, 2019

“The Black History Museum…According to the United States of America” by Abigail Weil

The Black History Museum….According to the United States of America, Smoke & Mirrors Collaborative’s new show at HERE Arts Center, combines, interrogates, reimagines, in short, chops…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:31PM
Thursday, November 7, 2019

“Dr. Ride’s American Beach House:” Ready for Orbit by Abigail Weil

It’s June 18, 1983. You’re a waitress in St. Louis who’s all but given up her dreams of achieving renown, or at least impact, as a poet. You’re in an unsatisfying relationship and a …

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:44PM

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2023-2024 BROADWAY SEASON
May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards