Apartment Leaves Much to Be Desired
By Patrick Hurley
One of Donald Margulies’s early plays The Model Apartment is playing now at The Geffen Playhouse. The play itself seeks to tackle big ideas and even bigger subject matter, namely the holocaust, and places all of it into a small domestic drama about an older couple and their troubled daughter. Read more
Awake is too Prosaic to Sing
By Patrick Hurley
The immutable hope for the American Dream to endure is alive and well in Awake & Sing! The revival production, playing now at the Odyssey theatre. Written in 1935 by Clifford Odets, it follows three generations of a Jewish family living in a small Bronx apartment during the great depression. Read more