Rhonda Clark and the other minds behind Carpenter Square Theatre’s creative direction read all of playwright Nicky Silver’s new works. Finding one that’s a good fit for their intimate production setting is another matter. Silver is a New York-based writer known for penning off-Broadway productions like 1993’s Pterodactyls, 1995’s Raised in Captivity and 2004’s Beautiful […]
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Carpenter Square Theatre presents play about intergenerational relationships
A young man visits his activist grandmother in the West Village during a cross-country bike trip in 4000 Miles at Carpenter Square Theatre.
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“Without spoiling anything, I’ll just say that the characters are acting crazy, but they’re dealing with a death and a cancer diagnosis and resultant decision about whether or not to pursue treatment,” Clark said.
“Without spoiling anything, I’ll just say that the characters are acting crazy, but they’re dealing with a death and a cancer diagnosis and resultant decision about whether or not to pursue treatment,” Clark said.
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A satire with no bad guy, Good People offers hopeful take on class struggle
A tale of our shared American experience.
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Welcome pest
By: Emily Etherton Some strong acting highlights an uneven production of Tracy Letts’ drama Bug, a collaboration between OKC Theatre Company and Ghostlight Theatre Club. It takes a while to get going, but the show hits a thrill bump in the last scene, which is played under the eerie glow of real bug zappers. Directed […]
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Parent hood
Carpenter Square Theatre has opened its 29th season with Yasmina Reza’s comedy God of Carnage, translated by Christopher Hampton. This is not a play that should be put on by amateurs, and director Rhonda Clark has assembled a cast of seasoned pros who do it justice. Whether this particular work is the best use of […]
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Shine on
Melanie Marnich’s docudrama These Shining Lives is meant to be taken both literally and figuratively: Women whose jobs literally cause their bodies to glow from radium poisoning provide shining examples of lives nonetheless well lived. Based on actual events and people, the play takes place between 1922 and 1938 in Chicago and Ottawa, Ill. Catherine […]
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Clowning around
The aliens in Aliens with Extraordinary Skills aren’t extraterrestrials; they’re two illegal immigrants from the former USSR constituents of Moldova and Russia trying to make it in the good ol’ U.S. of A. And that’s about the most interesting thing in this play by Saviana Stanescu, directed by Rhonda Clark. Professional clowns Nadia (Gwendolyn Evans) […]
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Fore!
When’s the last time you saw a play about golf? Me neither. Until this. “The Fox on the Fairway,” a farce by Ken Ludwig (“Lend Me a Tenor”) staging through Dec. 17 at Carpenter Square Theatre, is the golfing equivalent of shooting 136 on a par-72 course: If you happened to do it, you wouldn’t […]
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Fore!
When’s the last time you saw a play about golf? Me neither. Until this. “The Fox on the Fairway,” a farce by Ken Ludwig (“Lend Me a Tenor”) staging through Dec. 17 at Carpenter Square Theatre, is the golfing equivalent of shooting 136 on a par-72 course: If you happened to do it, you wouldn’t […]