Esther Williamson News

Full Casts & Creative Teams Set for PIPELINE FESTIVAL at WP Theater

by Chloe Rabinowitz — April 4, 2024

WP Theater has revealed the full casts and teams for the fifth biennial Pipeline Festival.

Shakespeare Project Of Chicago to Present Free Performance Of TIMON OF ATHENS

by Chloe Rabinowitz — March 8, 2024

The Shakespeare Project of Chicago will resume Shakespeare theatrical readings at the Newberry Library in Chicago with TIMON OF ATHENS, in a free performance March 9.

Urban Stages to Host Special Post-Show Conversations Following Performances of THE MAKING OF A GREAT MOMENT

by Chloe Rabinowitz — October 9, 2023

Discover Urban Stages' production of THE MAKING OF A GREAT MOMENT, written by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb and directed by James Barry.

THE MAKING OF A GREAT MOMENT Begins Tonight at Urban Stages

by Stephi Wild — September 28, 2023

Award-winning Off-Broadway theater Urban Stages will produce Peter Sinn Nachtrieb's play The Making of a Great Moment, directed by James Barry, Chester Theater Company's Co-Producing Artistic Director.

Tickets Now Available For BEDLAM'S DO MORE: NEW PLAY SERIES

by Stephi Wild — May 16, 2023

Bedlam's DO MORE: NEW PLAYS readings series returns for its third year with five thrilling new plays.

Chester Theatre Company Reveals Casting For 2023 Season

by Stephi Wild — May 8, 2023

Recently appointed Co-Producing Artistic Directors James Barry and Tara Franklin have announced the full casting for Chester Theatre Company’s 2023 season, the first under their direction.

Review: OUR BLACK DEATH by Taffety Punk Battles for Love at the End of the World

by Morgan Musselman — September 25, 2022

Taffety Punk returns to the stage in full force with their production of Our Black Death: Plagues, Turnips, and Other Romantic Gestures, directed by Marcus Kyd is all at once hilarious, shocking, and bittersweet in its exploration of love during a plague.

BWW Review: Taffety Punk's Bracing ANTIGONICK and THE FRAGMENTS OF SAPPHO

by Roger Catlin — June 3, 2019

Taffety Punk, the insurrectionist yet classically trained company now in its 15th year does what it does best in a pair of striking Greek adaptations by Anne Carson, presented in one invigorating sitting.

BWW Review: PRAMKICKER at Taffety Punk Theatre Company

by Elliot Lanes — September 17, 2018

Few and far between are the times that we reviewers have a perfect night in the theater.

BWW Review: Bootleg Shakespeare HENRY VI, PART 3 at Taffety Punk is Theater Without a Net

by Pamela Roberts — July 19, 2018

Taffety Punk Theatre Company's Bootleg Shakespeare production HENRY VI, PART 3 is performance without a net - exciting, dangerous, riveting, and raw.

Jane Austen's PERSUASION at The Players

by Stephi Wild — April 4, 2018

Sara Holdren will direct a staged reading of Jane Austen's Persuasion, adapted for the theatre by emerging playwright Sarah Rose Kearns, on Monday, April 9th at 7 o'clock at The Players in New York City, 16 Gramercy Park South.

Opera House Arts Opens Shakespeare's Intimate Epic HENRY IV Parts 1 & 2

by BWW News Desk — August 16, 2017

Performances begin this week for Henry IV, the final production of the Opera House Arts summer 2017 theatre season.

BWW Review: Powerful ILIAD at Taffety Punk

by Roger Catlin — October 10, 2016

By now the world is used to inhumane aberrations like ten-year wars.

BWW Reviews: A Thrilling, First Quarto 'Hamlet' With Taffety Punk

by Andrew White — May 11, 2015

Under the direction of Joel David Santner (who will shortly be moving to California for film school, a great loss to the DC area) the company has proven yet again that when viewed with fresh eyes, the early First Quarto version of 'Hamlet' is a limitless source of inspiration for artists and audien