Recommended by Sheila Cowley

  • Sheila Cowley: The Amazing Adventures of Dr. Wonderful (And Her Dog!)

    Great fun and inspirational - sure felt like I needed to rush out and buy a telescope after the show.

    Great fun and inspirational - sure felt like I needed to rush out and buy a telescope after the show.

  • Sheila Cowley: Speed of Light

    A cold, complex and realistic, very haunting world. Determined characters, intense struggles and a gritty sci fi atmosphere not unlike Firefly.

    Months later, I still think about it.

    A cold, complex and realistic, very haunting world. Determined characters, intense struggles and a gritty sci fi atmosphere not unlike Firefly.

    Months later, I still think about it.

  • Sheila Cowley: Shatter the Sky

    Hip, edgy and timeless. Shatter the Sky finds Orestes, Electra, Menelaeus and Helen all modern-just-like-us but still drives the story with the deep passion of Greek tragedy.

    The ending is pure poetry. The stage directions will inspire designers, along with script notes like this: "Enjoy the humor and trust the largeness of the world. Give your heart. Don't fear the melodrama."

    Hip, edgy and timeless. Shatter the Sky finds Orestes, Electra, Menelaeus and Helen all modern-just-like-us but still drives the story with the deep passion of Greek tragedy.

    The ending is pure poetry. The stage directions will inspire designers, along with script notes like this: "Enjoy the humor and trust the largeness of the world. Give your heart. Don't fear the melodrama."

  • Sheila Cowley: Medusa Undone

    What starts out as as a witty romance turns into Medusa's origin story. Poseidon is a charming rogue and Medusa a beautiful, determined woman trying to find her place in the world, and madly in love with Athena. Beautifully paced and building to a chilling start to the Greek myths we all remember, Poseidon's familiar justification for rape is realistically presented as Medusa becomes a woman who knows who she is, even cursed.

    An intimate epic that will spur discussion. I'd love to see this onstage - Medusa and Poseidon are deliciously complex characters that actors and audiences will relish...

    What starts out as as a witty romance turns into Medusa's origin story. Poseidon is a charming rogue and Medusa a beautiful, determined woman trying to find her place in the world, and madly in love with Athena. Beautifully paced and building to a chilling start to the Greek myths we all remember, Poseidon's familiar justification for rape is realistically presented as Medusa becomes a woman who knows who she is, even cursed.

    An intimate epic that will spur discussion. I'd love to see this onstage - Medusa and Poseidon are deliciously complex characters that actors and audiences will relish.