reviews
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“This entire story about who you are may remain intact”: The Nether by Jennifer Haley

With a greater distance of time, Jennifer Haley’s 2013 play The Nether can live a little more freely than when it debuted. I think there is a tendency when a work of science fiction first appears (particularly those that are set, like The Nether, “soon”) to judge it on its short term predictive abilities and Continue reading
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Dear Evan Hansen: Making the Lie True

As a swirl of virtual sound is abruptly silenced, the darkness of the theatre is illuminated by the solitary light of a laptop screen. A young man sits alone in his bedroom and tries to rewrite who he is. His first draft fails. The second unleashes a chain of events that goes far beyond anything Continue reading
