Email Author Tom Provenzano

2008 Stories by Tom Provenzano

• Babes in Toyland

  published December 18, 2008

  While visions of nutcrackers and Victorian misers dance through the Yuletide entertainment listings, this production offers a delightful... More >>

• Arroz con Pollo

  published December 11, 2008

  The titular Puerto Rican dish becomes the central metaphor for human and humane relationships in Edward H. Hernandez’s tightly drawn,... More >>

• Woyzeck

  published November 27, 2008

  Nineteenth-century German playwright Georg Büchner’s Woyzeck, an unfinished horror story of the common man crushed by military... More >>

• A Majority of One

  published November 6, 2008

  In the late 1950s, the era of the “well-made-play” was clearly waning. Still, playwrights like Leonard Spigelgass stuck to this form of... More >>

• How Cissy Grew

  published October 30, 2008

  Susan Johnston’s powerful new play is structured as a pastiche of three family members’ memories, slowly filling in the puzzle of their... More >>

• The Sequence

  published October 16, 2008

  For over 80 years, theater artists have been trying to make peace with technology and science, fields that would seem to defy the arts —... More >>

• Sea Change

  published October 2, 2008

  This world premiere of Nick Salamone’s latest play offers an elegant study of enduring friendships among five friends (three gay men and two... More >>

• Once on This Island

  published September 11, 2008

  This is a production that truly deserved its opening-night standing ovation. This beautifully simple 90-minute musical, composed by Stephen... More >>

• Sissystrata

  published August 28, 2008

  After last year’s scintillating gay version of The Bacchae, the same production team set to work on this adaptation of... More >>

• Lost in Yonkers

  published August 14, 2008

  Thirty years and 25 hits after his first comedy opened on Broadway, Neil Simon won his first Pulitzer prize in 1991 for this darkest of his plays.... More >>

• deLEARious

  published July 24, 2008

  Lyricist-playwright Ron West and composer Phil Swann’s overly ambitious travesty about King Lear, modern musicals and the King James Bible is... More >>

• Enchanted April

  published July 10, 2008

  The original 1922 novel by Elizabeth Von Arnim, screenwriter Peter Barnes' 1992 film and Matthew Barber's Tony-nominated 2003 stage adaptation all... More >>

• My Old Friends

  published June 26, 2008

  Seven senior citizens rusticate in an old folks’ home under the supervision of a tyrannical nurse (here, an uncredited offstage voice), until... More >>

• Alexandros

  published June 19, 2008

  Aging Abuelos (Maria Cellario), matriarch of a Cuban immigrant family in Miami, has determined she is to die on her 75th birthday. She gathers her... More >>

• I'm Just Wild About Harry

  published June 5, 2008

  As if Charley’s Aunt were not flighty enough for an early-20th-century chestnut featuring cross-dressing — nor... More >>

• Hedda Gabler

  published May 8, 2008

  Several years ago, the Fabulous Monsters devised a highly entertaining take on Ibsen’s classic which they named Speed Hedda. This production... More >>

• Pest Control: The Musical

  published May 1, 2008

  Based on Bill Fitzhugh’s whacky novel about a bug exterminator mistaken for the world’s finest hit man, the show (with a book by John... More >>

• In the Wings

  published April 17, 2008

  Jerry Sroka’s tepid seriocomic backstage drama follows the parallel lives of six actors and their roles in a play-within-a-play about a... More >>

• Culture Clash in Americca

  published March 27, 2008

  In a retreat from their starkly political works, Water & Power and Chavez Ravine, the Clash are back with lighter but no less... More >>

• My Thing of Love

  published March 6, 2008

  The language of Alexandra Gersten’s caustically funny and equally painful examination of a crumbling marriage navigates perfectly between... More >>

• Regretrosexual: The Love Story

  published February 28, 2008

  In his desperate attempts to adapt to any situation, straight comedian Dan Rothenberg spent two years in San Francisco dating men so he wouldn't... More >>

• Tranced

  published January 10, 2008

  Playwright Bob Clyman poses the vexing question of what it takes to make comfortable Americans care about troubles in remote Africa.... More >>

• Regretrosexual: The Love Story

  published January 10, 2008

  In his desperate attempts to adapt to any situation, straight comedian Dan Rothenberg spent two years in San Francisco dating men so he wouldn't... More >>