Pauline Adamek

Beautified, Tony Abatemarco's simply beautiful dramedy, is both a love letter to his brother, the play's subject, and a poignant tribute to a long-term, platonic relationship between a man and a woman. In 1969, recently relocated from Long Island, groovy Mike (Rob Brownstein) takes a chance and opens his own......

Inspired by her father's crucial but clandestine involvement in the U.S.' evacuation of Saigon as it was taken over by the Viet Cong (signaling the failure of the Vietnam War), a young woman struggles to capture accurately his personal story as well as bridge their emotional distance. Piecing together father......

Employing playful and inventive staging, director Julia Rodriguez-Elliott maximizes the Italian commedia dell'arte roots of 17th-century French playwright Molière's zany farce. Exposing the acting troupe's dressing rooms upstage, concealing certain incidental characters with masks and enlisting attention-seeking lighting effects (courtesy of designer Ken Booth) all adds to the madcap fun......

This dazzling and buoyant musical (on Broadway from 2005-08), based on Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize–winning saga, charts an oppressed Southern black woman's struggle for empowerment during the 1930s. The whirlwind pace of the lengthy (two and a half hours) show — with book by Marsha Norman and songs by Brenda......

J.P. Miller's 1958 teleplay (later a play and then a feature film) was groundbreaking in its dramatization of the problems of alcoholism. It was the first time many got to see what goes on inside those mysterious Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. Since it hasn't been staged locally for about 20 years,......

In this stand-up act with heart, writer-performer Johnny O'Callaghan takes us on a harrowing, emotional roller coaster as he relates the story of his efforts to adopt a 3-year-old Tutsi in fractious, civil war–torn Uganda. Humorous (though more smiles than laughs), brutally honest and contemptuous of the blatant avarice and......

"Hell hath no fury": Most of us are familiar with Congreve's famous (paraphrased) line regarding a woman scorned. In Kristina Poe's savagely funny and astonishingly perceptive play, distraught heroine Emily (Alexandra Hoover) is on a white-hot rampage. Her husband of 20 years, Jeff (Salvator Xuereb), has left her for a......

In co-creators David J and Ego Plum's speculative take on the Black Dahlia murder, the silhouettes of the three musicians — J on vocals and guitar, Plum on keyboards, drums and backing vocals and Ysanne Spevack on strings — can be glimpsed as they perform on a scaffolding tower behind......

Fun and frothy, new playwright Shane Sakhrani's insightful play presents the lighter side of the socially crippling stigma of widowhood in modern India. Although it's been two years since still-young-at-50 Deepa (an impishly cute Linda Patel) lost her husband, she insists on fasting and praying all day and refuses to......