Email Author Neal Weaver

2013 Stories by Neal Weaver

• Peter Pan: The Boy Who Hated Mothers

  published May 9, 2013

  Traditional productions of Peter Pan have relied on huge casts, acres of elaborate scenery and complicated flying apparatus, but director... More >>

• Brecht on Brecht

  published May 2, 2013

  Playwright George Tabori assembled a huge master script -- too massive for inclusion in any one production -- of materials collected from the... More >>

• Slipping

  published April 25, 2013

  Playwright-director Daniel Talbott doesn't make it easy for us. He tells his story in a defiantly nonlinear fashion, making multiple references to... More >>

• The Miracle Worker

  published April 18, 2013

  There's always a danger of toppling into sentimentality when retelling a story as uplifting and inspirational as the saga of blind, deaf and dumb... More >>

• Unscreened

  published March 14, 2013

  Four writers are represented in this evening of short plays: In Laura & Sebastian, written and directed by Daria Polatin, Sebastian (Joshua... More >>

• Complete

  published February 28, 2013

  Playwright Andrea Kuchlewska combines unlikely ingredients in her comedy: an est-like training program for self-realization, the art/science of... More >>

• Cavalia's Odysseo

  published February 21, 2013

  This vast equestrian spectacle (the stage, the size of a hockey rink, encompasses 15,000 square feet) created by Normand Latourelle and directed... More >>

• Jekyll & Hyde

  published February 21, 2013

  This musical thriller, with book and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse and music by Frank Wildhorn, never rises above the level of melodrama, but it's... More >>

• The Gift

  published February 14, 2013

  In this provocative comedy-drama, Australian writer Joanna Murray-Smith tells a tale of two married couples who meet at an upscale tropical... More >>

• Peter Pan

  published January 24, 2013

  Cathy Rigby may be a grandmother, but you'd never know it from watching her. Her Peter Pan is brash, butch and vigorously athletic — and,... More >>