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Michael Kras

Recommended by Michael Kras

  • Safeword by Jack MacCarthy
    3 Apr. 2018
    “ Wow. I want so badly to read the whole thing. The 20 page excerpt offered here is some of the most gripping, challenging, stomach-churningly visceral playwriting I've read in a while. If the rest of the play following those 20 pages is this engrossing (and I very much believe it would be, and then some) it's very much looking into for anyone who wants to add some fire to their season. ”
  • TEACH: ANOTHER MONOLOGUE THAT I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO WRITE by Asher Wyndham
    7 Mar. 2018
    “ A blunt, disturbingly clear-eyed, and uncompromisingly confrontational short piece, and a forecast for a grim future. This is acceptance of a 'post-racial' modern America. This is acceptance that the answer to guns is more guns. This short solo piece feels complete but I'd also be very eager to see a full length play built around it. As is, it still packs the punch in just a couple of pages. ”
  • 23 1/2 Hours by Carey Crim
    9 Jan. 2018
    “ I couldn't put this play down. Crim reveals details with masterful patience and makes a well-worn premise and trope feel so fresh that you'll convince yourself you've never seen this story onstage before. I could go on and on about how my allegiances were rocked by every endlessly complicated revelation, about Crim's gift for emotional largeness that never feels forced, about how shaken up I was after reading it. Instead, I'll just implore you to read this play and consider it for your season. It's brutally brilliant. ”
  • The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe
    17 Mar. 2017
    “ At a glance this looked like a daunting read (nine characters, only identified by their jersey number), and then I was blown away by how quickly I eased into who is speaking when and why. The Wolves is as deeply realized a play about young women can be. The language is frantic and messy yet so precise, it breaks the rules in so many fascinating ways, and the ending is so deeply affecting in its indirectness. It's hilarious, it's ugly, it's beautiful, it's heart-squeezing. ”
  • The Circle by Geoffrey Simon Brown
    6 Nov. 2016
    “ Frenetic, arrhythmic, and atypical in all the best ways. This play is ferocious. It unapologetically captures the relationships of teenagers navigating themselves and pushing their own personal boundaries. It's also got a genuinely shocking climax and gorgeous final soliloquy.

    This is the kind of play that scares the shit out of most theatre companies. And that's absolutely why they should consider staging it. I just saw its production at Tarragon Theatre and every second of it felt audacious and new. ”

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