REVIEW: Creative License Presents “The Comeuppance” at the Cohoes Music Hall

by Jess Hoffman Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is a Pulitzer and Tony award-winning new and noteworthy powerhouse of a playwright for whom I have much admiration. His 2014 drama Appropriate and 2015 tragicomedy Gloria are both spectacular works that I have previously seen on stage, and his newest play Purpose recently won…

Silverthorne Theater Company Announces Auditions for Summer 2025

Silverthorne Theater CompanySummer 2025 Auditions We are excited to invite you to our 2025 summer season auditions! Our summer 2025 season includes productions of The Amateurs, by Jordan Harrison, and The Comeuppance, by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins.  Auditions will take place on Friday, March 21st, from 5:00 PM – 9:00 PM, in…

Smith College Department of Theatre Presents “Everybody”

The Smith College Department of Theatre presents Everybody by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins on April 24, 25, 26, 27 at 7:30pm in the Hallie Flanagan Studio Theatre directed by Kim Stauffer. This often funny, always provocative play is a modern riff on the fifteenth-century morality play Everyman  in which the title character is at death’s…

Smith College Department of Theatre Announces Auditions for “Everybody”

Smith College Department of Theatre AUDITIONS EVERYBODY by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, directed by Tara Franklin This modern riff on the fifteenth-century morality play Everyman follows Everybody (chosen from amongst the cast by lottery at each performance) as they journey through life’s greatest mystery—the meaning of living. Auditions:  Sunday, January 28 and Monday,…

UMass Theater’s “Everybody” Tackles Big Questions About Death with Humor

What will you take with you? UMass Theater‘s Everybody tackles big questions about death with humor. Everybody by Branden Jacobs-JenkinsDirected by Rudy RamirezOct 15, 16, 21, 22 at 7:30 p.m., Oct. 23 at 2 p.m.The Rand Theater, Bromery Center for the Arts (formerly the Fine Arts Center), UMass Tickets sold through the Fine Arts…

REVIEW: “Appropriate” at Albany Civic Theater

Is Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Obie-winning APPROPRIATE just another play about a dysfunctional family, with siblings fighting for their share of the estate after the recent death of their father? Or is there something darker and more significant behind its vitriol? A glance at the program provided by the Albany Civic Theater…

Albany Civic Theater Announces 2018-2019 Season

Albany Civic Theater is pleased to announce our 2018-2019 season: The Gingerbread Lady by Neil Simon Directed by Gary Hoffmann September 7 – 23, 2018 Through wit and humor, Simon creates a tragically sympathetic portrait of a talented woman undone by her own fears and excesses. Gloria by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Directed…