Sarah Ellen Stephens

In the end, it is largely the combination of sensitively-selected detail and poetic diction on the one hand, and the big-picture view of various interlocked social problems that makes the show so extraordinary. In that big picture, the problems are too pervasive, too ingrained to surmount, and well-intentioned people trying to escape those problems will probably fail. In the end, the play suggests, we are much more the product of the forces that shaped us than of our own volition.

Sarah Ellen Stephens delivers a passionate, nuanced performance as Amina, a black Cleveland police officer whose relationship with a fellow, white officer is dealt a huge blow when a late-night confrontation with a suspect leads to a shooting, under murky circumstances. Playwright Kevin Artigue does an admirable job of laying out the complexities, leaving enough room for all of us to contemplate how easily even the best of intentions can implode.

F*It Club, the New York Innovative Award-winning film and theatre company, will complete ten years of its annual series of short, commissioned world-premiere plays at the IRT Theater as part of their 3B Development Series in Manhattan's West Village with The Spring Fling: Happily Ever After.

The Musical Theater and Acting departments at The University of Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music, will host an exclusive online senior showcase for their thirty-five graduating seniors on April 12 after canceling their New York showcase for the second consecutive year due to COVID restrictions.

The Musical Theater and Acting departments at The University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music, will host an exclusive online senior showcase for their thirty-five graduating seniors on April 12 after canceling their New York showcase for the second consecutive year due to COVID restrictions.

The american vicarious and The Invisible Dog Arts Center will present the world premiere of Negative Liberty / Positive Liberty, a socially distanced performance installation exploring famed British philosopher Isaiah Berlin's historic 1958 lecture/essay: Two Concepts of Liberty: Negative & Positive.

DOUBT, A Parable, has a new, expanded title since it began its Broadway run, but it's the same riveting drama that gathered a Pulitzer Prize and Best Play Tony Award. And the upcoming Human Race Theatre Company production will provide even more emotional intensity, thanks to the intimacy of the 219-seat Loft Theatre.

DOUBT, A Parable, has a new, expanded title since its Broadway run, but it's the same riveting drama that gathered a Pulitzer Prize and Best Play Tony Award as just plain Doubt. And the upcoming Human Race Theatre Company production will provide even more emotional intensity, thanks to the intimacy of the 219-seat Loft Theatre.

DOUBT, A Parable, has a new, expanded title since its Broadway run, but it's the same riveting drama that gathered a Pulitzer Prize and Best Play Tony Award as just plain Doubt. And the upcoming Human Race Theatre Company production will provide even more emotional intensity, thanks to the intimacy of the 219-seat Loft Theatre.

DOUBT, A Parable, has a new, expanded title since its Broadway run, but it's the same riveting drama that gathered a Pulitzer Prize and Best Play Tony Award as just plain Doubt. And the upcoming Human Race Theatre Company production will provide even more emotional intensity, thanks to the intimacy of the 219-seat Loft Theatre.