on “Life and Death in Paradise: After The Flood” (an IWFF review) — Sometimes we move to a tropical place and get stuck there, either by a global pandemic or by the collapse of the land bridge between present-day Venezuela and the islands of Trinidad and Tobago. …

Produced by BetweenTheLines Theatre company, Kenneth Lonergan’s 1996 stage play This is Our Youth is an odd choice for a contemporary theatre company, as the play is already 22 years old and it is set even further back, in 1982. Yet our present culture is experiencing quite a retroactive moment…

Lights up on a sequence: 1. woman struggles to share the depth of hurt over a recent breakup on facebook, in order to seek relief or just not feel as isolated in her grief. 2. woman second guesses this impulse because she’s polyamorous and it’s hard to be out about…