What could be more human than a family gathering at Thanksgiving, sharing a meal together, giving thanks, expressing hopes and the inevitable disappointments. So it goes at Palm Beach Dramaworks in Stephen Karam’s Tony Award-winning comic drama, The Humans, a jaundice-eyed look at the Irish-Catholic Blakes, Erik and Deirdre (Andy Prosky and Anne-Marie Cusson), of Scranton, … [Read more...]
‘The Humans’ stuns at GableStage
Yes, the Blake family of Stephen Karam’s The Humans is dysfunctional, but what onstage clan is not? Still, most of them are so wrapped up in their own troubles, they are oblivious to their collective difficulties. In a work that is alternately dramatic, comic and more than a little creepy, it would be the rare audience member who does not identity with this clan on some … [Read more...]
Postcard from Broadway No. 5: Two searing, powerful plays
Jeff Daniels and Michelle Williams in Blackbird. Wednesday is, of course, a matinee day, so I saw two productions today and, as it worked out, they were two highly intense, intermissionless plays, which packed a lot of gut punch in roughly 90 minutes each. The one with considerable star power was David Harrower's Blackbird, making its Broadway debut although it is … [Read more...]