Thursday, February 23, 2017
Originally published on Mic.com View this story online No one can accuse Jake Gyllenhaal of being a slacker. The Oscar-nominated actor is known for playing intense, perhaps tortured characte…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 09:14PMWednesday, February 22, 2017
Originally published on The Culture Trip View this story online In Caryl Churchill’s latest play, four aging women chat away an afternoon. How scary can it be? The answer, it turns out, …
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 11:22AMTuesday, February 14, 2017
Originally published in Paste magazine View this story online Blame it on Donald Trump, but this critic was not enthralled by spending 2 ½ hours watching yet another story about a childish,…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 10:34AMSunday, February 5, 2017
Originally published on Storia.me View this story online Apple got it wrong. When the company aired its controversial “Lemmings” commercial back in 1985, showing people grimly marching o…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 09:28AMFriday, February 3, 2017
The struggles to control people and the situations surrounding them, and the dynamics between masters and those they enslave, are integral to Shakespeare’s canon—as they are to American …
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 04:22PMSaturday, January 28, 2017
Originally published on Mic.com View this story online Betty Buckley has come a long way since she saw her first scary movie. On a family outing to see The War of the Worlds in 1953, the …
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 04:13PMOriginally published on The Guardian View this story online ast year might have been an annus horribilis for most, but for Josh Groban, 2016 couldn’t have gone much better. The multiplatin…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 02:04PMWednesday, January 25, 2017
Originally published in Paste Magazine View this story online “Anything doing?” asks a reporter placing a call to a police station in The Front Page. Watching this riotous revival of thi…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 03:58PMSunday, January 15, 2017
Originally published on Paste Magazine View this story online When asked, “What is scarier—doing live theater or giving birth?” Mariah MacCarthy responds without hesitating, “Doing l…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 10:52AMMonday, January 2, 2017
Originally published on Politico View this story online Ten years ago, I worked at Trump magazine, the short-lived publication that aimed to attract a readership of wealthy men with an unend…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 09:05PMSaturday, December 17, 2016
* Hearing the phrase “Carpe diem” is sure to bring some misty-eyed memories to audience members at Dead Poet’s Society. The new play at Classic Stage Company, is adapted …
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 04:25PMFriday, December 16, 2016
“Be yourself.” It sounds simple, but this suggestion is anything but, especially in Dear Evan Hansen, the astonishingly moving new musical at the Music Box Theater on Broadway. Th…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 09:49AMThe set is cartoonish but the emotions are anything but in The Hard Nut, Mark Morris’ adaptation of The Nutcracker. Now celebrating its 25th anniversary, the dance performance, playing at …
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 09:35AMTuesday, December 6, 2016
Originally published on Salon.com View this story online There was no shortage of scandal surrounding Trump’s presidential campaign, when voters witnessed his refusal to release his tax r…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 03:55PMFriday, December 2, 2016
Originally published in The Village Voice View this story online Like many Americans, artist Cecilia Corrigan was expecting to spend the final months of 2016 celebrating Hillary Clinton̵…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 10:33PMThursday, December 1, 2016
Originally published on CafeMom View this story online Lexi Lawson may be a newcomer to Broadway, but she has stepped into the role of Eliza in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton with short…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 05:20PMThursday, November 17, 2016
Originally published on Elle.com View this story online For more than 30 years, Molly Ringwald has been a beacon for teens everywhere, thanks to her endearing and relatable adolescent charac…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 01:54PMTuesday, November 8, 2016
On the eve of the 2016 election, Broadway’s brightest gathered at the Dramatists Guild Fund Gala at Gotham Hall in New York, NY for Great Writers Thank Their Lucky Stars: The Presidential …
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 01:42PMFriday, November 4, 2016
Disappointment is the undeniable and devastating theme of Plenty, David Hare’s play that is presented in a lukewarm revival at the Public Theater. And that disappointment is not lim…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 10:01AMTuesday, November 1, 2016
“I’m sorry. Was that an unnecessary act of confession?” The answer is yes. For almost 80 minutes straight, yes. The entirety of this play is too confessional and absolutely unnecessary…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 10:01PMSaturday, October 29, 2016
Originally published on Politico View this story online As the election ticks down to the wire, there’s a glaring disadvantage staring the Trump campaign in the face—one that is an expli…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 08:43PMThursday, October 20, 2016
It’s early in the year to blame a weight gain on the holidays, but after seeing Holiday Inn, the new Irving Berlin musical at Studio 54, I was afraid to step on the scale for fear some of …
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 08:14AMWednesday, October 19, 2016
First loves are often the subject of works of drama, but the first loves reminisced about in Stuffed differ greatly from those of a Shakespearean tragedy. Instead of a next-door neighbor or …
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 08:42AMThursday, October 13, 2016
Originally published in Dame Magazine Read this story online “I’m fluent in Bastard. It’s one of my languages,” Selina Meyer, the title character in HBO’s Veep, states unapologetic…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 08:26AMWednesday, October 12, 2016
Being a part of an immersive theater production is one experience, but having an aerialist dangle less than five feet from your head (while the silks that the aerialist hangs from brush your…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 10:54AMSunday, October 2, 2016
The meaning of time is constantly pondered, discussed and perhaps even escaped from by the protagonist of The Encounter, the new play on Broadway by Simon McBurney, but, for th…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 08:25AMTuesday, September 20, 2016
“I’m glad I didn’t have a drink before seeing this play,” was my first thought as I left a performance of Bachelorette, Leslye Headland’s dark comedy that was revived at Walkerspac…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 01:26PMMonday, September 19, 2016
It’s not all fun and games in The Wolves, the new play by Sarah DeLapppe receiving its world-premiere production from the Playwrights Realm. Despite taking place on a soccer field, …
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 10:11AMSaturday, September 17, 2016
A sign at the entrance of The Birds warns audience members that the production contains the use of fog and nudity. However, neither of the two aspects of the play that require warning are sh…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 09:37AMMonday, September 5, 2016
“I worry you think too much,” one character says to anther in Spinoza’s Ethics, the ambitious new play being presented in the Dream Up Festival at Theater for the New City.…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 10:31AMSaturday, September 3, 2016
It looked like it was going to be another quiet night at work for Robert at the small Belfast pub, but he couldn’t have been more wrong…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 09:19AM 
