Recommended by Joshua H. Cohen

  • Joshua H. Cohen: Make Way by Dave Osmundsen
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    Everybody thinks they would be the hero if faced with actual authoritarianism, but in real life we stand silently while it creeps up on us. We have jobs to do, mouths to feed. We're just trying to get by. "Make Way" takes this reality to its logical conclusion in a way that feels frighteningly prescient.

    Everybody thinks they would be the hero if faced with actual authoritarianism, but in real life we stand silently while it creeps up on us. We have jobs to do, mouths to feed. We're just trying to get by. "Make Way" takes this reality to its logical conclusion in a way that feels frighteningly prescient.

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  • Joshua H. Cohen: Catching Lemons by Michael Pisaturo
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    Tender and warm, this play turns into a surprising portrait of regret for things left unsaid.

    Tender and warm, this play turns into a surprising portrait of regret for things left unsaid.

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  • Joshua H. Cohen: Big Iron Fires by Greg Romero
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    This play will provoke intense, emotional reactions on all sides of the gun control debate - exactly as it's designed to do. It combines the confrontational and the symbolic/literary for maximum emotional firepower (pun intended).

    This play will provoke intense, emotional reactions on all sides of the gun control debate - exactly as it's designed to do. It combines the confrontational and the symbolic/literary for maximum emotional firepower (pun intended).

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  • Joshua H. Cohen: I Saw Jesus in Toa Baja by Nelson Diaz-Marcano
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    A tour de force of heightened language, theology, and raw political anger at an island and a culture abandoned to the elements. A powerful voice.

    A tour de force of heightened language, theology, and raw political anger at an island and a culture abandoned to the elements. A powerful voice.

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  • Joshua H. Cohen: YOU MOTHER by Annie LaRussa
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    As a parent, this play was difficult to watch, in the way that good theater should be difficult to watch. Challenging, unsettling, powerful. You feel your sympathies shifting back and forth between the two characters, and the deliberate ambiguities baked into the script reflect your own assumptions back at you.

    As a parent, this play was difficult to watch, in the way that good theater should be difficult to watch. Challenging, unsettling, powerful. You feel your sympathies shifting back and forth between the two characters, and the deliberate ambiguities baked into the script reflect your own assumptions back at you.

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  • Joshua H. Cohen: FAWZIE: A HOTEL CHAMBERMAID MONOLOGUE by Asher Wyndham
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    An actor's dream: Funny, sharp, and ultimately inspiring, in an age when many of us feel powerless against encroaching hate.

    An actor's dream: Funny, sharp, and ultimately inspiring, in an age when many of us feel powerless against encroaching hate.

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