Paul Birchall

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Boise, USA

Playwright Gene Franklin Smith’s character-driven drama about gay persecution in the ’50s avoids politically correct preachiness, and instead conveys a powerful...

Nymphony in 12-D

Playwright Gib Wallis’ musical farce is one of those mildly exploitative gay-fantasy comedies in which young men with the bodies of Greek gods run around ...

Saint Joan

Director Matthew Kellen Burgos’ staging of George Bernard Shaw’s powerful opus is a worthy if workmanlike production focusing on Shaw’s debate...
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From Door to Door

When Mary (Cheryl David), the central figure in playwright James Sherman’s genial character portrait of three generations of women in a Jewish American fa...
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Assistance

In playwright Leslye Headland’s droll workplace comedy, the Caligulan corporate boss for whom all workers leap through hoops is never actually seen onstag...

The Time of Your Life

Do not take your recovering-alcoholic relative to see William Saroyan’s 1940 Pulitzer Prize–winning drama. Aside from the ensemble piece’s mea...

Imagofest

In this bill of one-act plays, three playwrights explore the detritus left behind when a romance passes its sell-by date. In playwright Matt Sauter’s R...