Dry Land Proves Unsettling
By Patrick Hurley
Dry Land, playing now at the Kirk Douglas Theatre as part of Center Theatre Groups Block Party, is a theatrical and literary novelty, it’s a coming-of-age story that was written by a playwright who was only twenty-one years old when she wrote it, she had not had time nor space from her own youth before she tackled this very deliberate, awkwardly funny exploration of friendship. And while some could lay the blame of her inexperience of life on the lackadaisical adherence to traditional plot, it is precisely the lens of inexperience that creates something new and interesting. Read more 
Nice Has Something to Say
By Patrick Hurley
The effects of war, not only on the returning soldiers, but on their loved ones as well as the implications that the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have had on the collected psyche of our culture, are all examined in Vince Melocchi’s new drama Nice Things, playing now through November 23, at Rogue Machine. Read more
