Tag: Young Jean Lee

After the harrowing events of the last year, the production is a noble effort—but something of a misfire.

A portrait of George Washington hangs in Ford's Theatre on the presidential box where Abraham Lincoln was shot. When you stop to think about...

Two staples of American drama have been the “kitchen-sink play,” which feature small casts and meticulously detailed, usually lower-middle class, settings, and what I’ll...

Playwright Young Jean Lee’s audacious title refers to the particular—the white widowed father (Ed) and his three grown sons (Drew, Jake, and Matt) who...

If your empathy for straight white men was strained by last week’s elections, go see Young Jean Lee’s 2014 play at The Studio Theatre....

The Edge of the Universe Players 2's workshop production of Young Jean Lee’s Pullman, WA was an evening that defies easy categorization. It was charming...

Young Jean Lee's theatre, entitled Young Jean Lee's Theater Company (2003-2016), was dedicated to producing "shows written and directed by Young Jean Lee." The...

In these jagged days immediately after the election, Studio Theatre’s richly revealing production of Straight White Men by Young Jean Lee is bracing, to say...

Getting to Know the Play Pullman, WA by Young Jean Lee Reflections by Producer Bill Goodman, The Edge of the Universe Players 2. During the process of producing Pullman,...

It’s Christmastime at the Norton house. The three Norton boys – well, they’re in their forties, but they sure act like boys most of...

As the fall semester comes to a close, the theater department at CCBC Essex has taken a turn for the absurd. Julie Lewis directs...

If there were a Richter Scale for risk-taking in theater, Forum Theatre’s  production ofThe Shipment would register right up at the top. In brazenly...

Before I spoke with Psalmayne 24 about his direction of The Shipment—which plays through June 13, 2015, at Forum Theatre—I read the play by...