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Stephen Foglia

Recommended by Stephen Foglia

  • QUICK by Callan Stout
    30 Dec. 2019
    “ It's the relative quiet that makes this play so arresting. The simplicity. Stout takes a (for the moment) speculative premise and grounds it so assuredly in the voices and lives of three women that the play feels like testimony from the near future. I've thought about this play often since I first heard it read, and it leaps to my mind with each news alert that the world it depicts is merging with our own. ”
  • The Great Divide by Alix Sobler
    3 Dec. 2019
    “ This play is so many things at once: a righteous labor drama, a tender love story, a haunting choral work, and a history of the Jewish immigrants who helped to build this country. It is also, finally, a story about the telling of these stories. Sobler manages it all with astonishing elegance, making a play of so many layers and potent themes seem the most natural thing in the world. ”
  • Isle Royale by Jeffrey James Keyes
    13 Nov. 2019
    “ A haunting "last summer before adulthood" play. Keyes writes with such a sense of the dynamics of siblings and male friendship. Isle Royale moves swiftly and with deceptive ease towards a startling emotional climax. It has wonderful, sophisticated roles for young actors and is subtly attuned to class, race, and sexual identities. ”
  • Ada by Aeneas Sagar Hemphill
    7 Nov. 2019
    “ What excites me about this play is the way Hemphill has economically and effortlessly blended elements of science-fiction and workplace comedy to produce a full-throated attack on Weinstein-esque predation and the capital-warped culture that permits it. Ada is a terrific role. The design possibilities are thrilling to ponder. Can't wait to see it! ”
  • Chicken. by Theresa Giacopasi
    29 Oct. 2019
    “ Chicken. is a daring, unsettling play about the holes we find ourselves in and the risks we're willing to take to get out of them. It moves with pace and confidence, and I love how fully-felt it is: as if the playwright has crawled into every corner of her characters and is unafraid to show what she discovered. There's so much truth in its tight 80 pages. And as long as you've got four great actors, it's easy to imagine a first-rate production at any budget-scale. ”
  • The Grand Illusion Show by Emily Dendinger
    11 Oct. 2019
    “ Such a winning, vibrant magic-show of a play. Dendinger hits a sweet spot of historical comedy that reflects, with both charm and anger, the world of today. If it's this much fun to read, I can only imagine how the play takes flight when the wonderful illusions are actually staged! ”
  • ...and a dog named Jesus by Samantha Cooper
    9 Oct. 2019
    “ ...and a a dog named Jesus is a twisted, quietly radical romcom that moves breathlessly from meet-cute to explosive social critique. Samantha Cooper writes with color and wit, neither hiding the darkness nor allowing it to overshadow the fun of her genre-mixing and the vividness of her characters. A bold blast of a play with terrific roles for female, male, and non-binary actors. ”
  • The Glass Piano by Alix Sobler
    24 Sep. 2019
    “ The Glass Piano is such a lovely play. A winning harmony of artifice and piercing emotional truth. The world feels at once inviting and fresh, smudging the border between reality and fairy tale. Sobler's characters are big -- they have to be to contain their enormous desires -- but never so large that we lose sight of the nuance in their relationships. The images are so rich they feel they must have always been there waiting for a writer to bring them to stage. A treat for adventurous theatre-makers and audiences. ”
  • Occupy Prescott by Andy Boyd
    23 Sep. 2019
    “ A smart and marvelously specific look at what it means to build a community and organize for action (or what it means to participate in democracy). With humor and empathy, Boyd dramatizes how when the issues are the important matters of our lives, a utopian vision of people coming together can rarely withstand five minutes of people actually being together. Yet through the struggle itself a new kind of utopian vision may flicker in and out of being. Great show to spark conversation! ”
  • The Colony by Gina Stevensen
    23 Sep. 2019
    “ The Colony is a brilliantly unsettling play, a scary slow-drip indictment of a vast ideology that sees women's bodies as a means for the purposes of others. Gina Stevenson writes with such delicacy and heart that the grief and moral horror at the center of the story become all the more penetrating. It's a play that really comes and finds you where you live. ”

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