Theater: plays and musicals

The Kite Runner– Broadway Version

Written by Diana Paul on October 4, 2022. Posted in Theater: plays and musicals, Unhealed Wound.

The Kite Runner (2003) by Khaled Hosseini is a deeply moving, sometimes horrific story of two childhood friends–one a servant, the other the privileged son of the master of the house. Taking place in Kabul, Afghanistan during the 1980’s, The Kite Runner tackles the themes of class, ethnic division, and the price of...

Burn This–Blazing Comedy on Broadway

Written by diana on May 26, 2019. Posted in Theater: plays and musicals. 3 Comments on Burn This–Blazing Comedy on Broadway

“Burn This”–a Broadway revival of a Lanford Wilson play Burn This, a revival of a 1980’s play by the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lanford Wilson, well deserves the five Tony award nominations it has received this year. The exceptional performance by Adam Driver will leave you breathless. The...

“Dear Evan Hansen”–A Note to Loneliness

Written by diana on June 4, 2017. Posted in Theater: plays and musicals, Unhealed Wound. 1 Comment on “Dear Evan Hansen”–A Note to Loneliness

Deeply personal and profoundly contemporary, Dear Evan Hansen is about social media's ability to unintentionally magnify "little lies" until they take on a life of their own. At that point there is no easy way out.

“A Doll’s House Part 2”–Knocking on the Door

Written by diana on May 19, 2017. Posted in Theater: plays and musicals.

A door slams. The viewer is stunned. Nora makes the shocking decision to leave her husband and three young children. That is where A Doll’s House, the iconic 1879 play by Ibsen, leaves off. Now the young playwright, Lucas Hnath, has continued Nora’s story in this intriguing Tony-nominated play asking us to imagine her life fifteen years later....

“The Humans” –A Family Thanksgiving for a Fearful Middle Class

Written by diana on November 25, 2015. Posted in Theater: plays and musicals.

It starts as just another family drama on Thanksgiving. But family Thanksgivings can be horrific, chilling celebrative occasions for some of us. “The Humans” written by the Pulitzer Prize finalist Stephen Karam is just that. The aging dad worries about money, one daughter moans about her student debt, the other is heartbroken by...

“Photograph 51”—Rosalind Franklin: Double Helix and Double Crossed

Written by diana on November 2, 2015. Posted in Theater: plays and musicals, Unhealed Wound. 2 Comments on “Photograph 51”—Rosalind Franklin: Double Helix and Double Crossed

Nicole Kidman The critically acclaimed play, “Photograph 51”, currently in London, and written by Anna Ziegler, exposes the obscurity of a brilliant crystallographer, Rosalind Franklin, who identified the chemical structure needed for understanding the molecular composition of DNA as well as raising the question: Are women still sidelined...