Article by Lily Janiak for the San Francisco Chronicle 8/23/2025 “Alabaster” isn’t stereotypical community theater fare, starting with the fact that it’s written by a living female playwright, Audrey Cefaly, who isn’t a household name. In “Alabaster,” a connection doesn’t have to be happily ever after to be life-giving, and we don’t have to...
NEWS & REVIEWS: HOW MY GRANDPARENTS FELL IN LOVE By Playwright Cary Gitter and Composer Neil Berg
In 1933, Charlie, a Polish-born Jew who emigrated to America a decade earlier, returns to his hometown of Rovno in search of a bride. There Charlie meets Chava, who works at a hat shop and hopes to become a scholar. However, Chava’s ambitions for the future and the growing clouds of European anti-Semitism and...
NEWS & REVIEWS: OPEN Directed by Jessi D. Hill
A spellbinding story of love, loss, and the impossible—Open takes the stage Off-Broadway July 8–27 as a recipient of the WP Space Program. Presented by Midnight Theatricals, this electrifying production is produced in association with The Tank and Flying Carpet Theatre Company. Open is a New Georges Supported Production, with further support from the...
NEWS & REVIEWS: GENE & GILDA at George Street Playhouse
Article by Margaret Hall for Playbill.com Jonathan Randell Silver and Jordan Kai Burnett are reprising their performances as, respectively, Wilder and Radner from the work’s world premiere at Penguin Rep Theater and New Jersey run at George Street Playhouse July 23-September 7, 2025. Tickets available here. Beloved entertainers Gene Wilder and Gilda Radner come...
NEWS & REVIEWS: WRITING FRAGMENTS HOME by Jeffrey Lo
Review by Joanne Engelhardt for Stage & Cinema 4/19/2025 It makes sense that Jeffrey Lo—a Filipino artist who writes, directs, and knows the Peninsula theater scene inside and out—could write a play like Writing Fragments Home. It’s personal without being sentimental, funny without trying too hard, and it lands exactly where it needs to....