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Kerr Lockhart

Recommended by Kerr Lockhart

  • The Interrogator by Russell Sharman
    21 Apr. 2024
    “ I had the privilege of assisting at a staged reading of THE INTERROGATOR by Russell Sharman at the Baltimore Playwrights Festival. It is a moving meditation on guilt, responsibility, identity, and justice. The level of craft is old-school, weaving portions of actual transcripts with both original and composite characters, using rhythmic repetition, and a few enigmatic visuals to fashion something very different than the standard WWII melodrama you think you're going to see at the outset. Mr. Sharman is an exceedingly skilled writer and I look forward to following the progress of this play and his career in general. ”
  • Southlake by Mike Byham
    4 Mar. 2024
    “ A country porch on a languid Texas night, memories, alcohol, ethical choices, a ghost, the perfect stew for a powerful play about responsibility and regret, how they echo across time and space and even across generations. A field day for actors who know how to handle focus and suspense and keep an audience at the edge of their seats over a sustained stretch of time. Fine theatrical craftsmanship and audience awareness. Meant to be produced. ”
  • Madeline by Bruce Bonafede
    19 Jan. 2024
    “ A big empty room with a bed in the middle and a large sunny window open to a beautiful day. Naturally, we are in the pit of hell. Bruce Bonafede has previously demonstrated his expertise at showing the underside of bland, happy, middle America, but even if you're used to his dark perspective, MADELINE conceals a wallop between the eyes that will send an audience reeling; yet that wallop has been prepared as assiduously as Chekhov loaded one of his guns. As usual, the dialogue flows crisply, made for actors to act and bound to make one's head spin. ”
  • The Equestrian by Ricardo Soltero-Brown
    17 Jan. 2024
    “ To call Ricardo Soltero-Brown's exhilarating high-wire act of a play The Equestrian is like calling Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, "The Play About The Baby." We wonder if there really is a horse, or if that voice on the phone is actually the horse, then wonder if Danielle is any of the things she says she is. Pinter meets Beckett in a lyrical, yet undependable web of words. And who is being gaslit, Sarah or the audience? Grab on, strap in, get ready for the ride, knowing perfectly well there is no ride unless there is. A bravura mind-f**k. ”
  • The Five Stages: 5 Short Plays About Life, Death, and Love by Brenton Kniess
    30 Dec. 2023
    “ Imagine the absurd world of early Terrence McNally, addressed with the manic madness of David Ives. Brenton-Kneiss-Land is a Sad-Mad-Happy-Frightened-Brave world of dreamers and hopers, and is destined to attract theatermakers and theatergoers of a similar temperament. Is there such a thing as a melancholy romp? If there is, you'll find it here among The Five Stages. And stages are where these plays belong. ”
  • Feeble-Minded White Trash a full length by Susan Middaugh
    9 Jun. 2023
    “ Susan Middaugh presents her play FEEBLE-MINDED WHITE TRASH as a diatribe against Buck v. Bell, the Supreme Court case which permits states to sterilize those it considers unworthy to be parents. But the play is much bigger than that -- it is a family saga in the spirit of Coward's THIS HAPPY BREED, Gurney's DINING ROOM and Wilder's LONG CHRISTMAS DINNER, celebrating the strength and endurance of family against the smug progressivism of the law and providing a triumph for the ties of kinship, unconventional though it be -- even across racial lines -- over narrow-minded and judgmental social gatekeepers. ”
  • People Should Talk About What's Real by Alli Hartley-Kong
    27 Sep. 2022
    “ "Fetus is the real 'F' word, isn't it?" In PEOPLE SHOULD TALK ABOUT WHAT'S REAL, Alli Hartley-Kong writes real, lumpy, sharp-elbowed, non sequitur, inappropriate joke-making, bad timing people. People too busy being real and raw and funny and awful and hurtful and true to cooperate with any story the author might want to impose; trying to define themselves while they're in the middle of the most important thing they will do in their lives. And Kong sticks the landing -- not because there's a solution, but because the characters acknowledge there isn't one, and that's fine. Great playmaking. ”
  • These Are The Times by David Hansen
    2 Jul. 2022
    “ THESE ARE THE TIMES by David Hansen is a six-layer chocolate cake. It is labeled as a two-act play, but in length it is truly two plays, which together track the creation and development of political theater in America in the middle of the 20th century. The first play pays tribute to the Living Newspaper and similar contemporary pageants, the second play traces the early days of improv theater from economics to race and sex. Whether out of hometown loyalty or as the product of a commission, all the events have been relocated to Cleveland. A vigorous burst of theatricality! ”
  • CHRISTMAS IS ALL YOU WANT IT TO BE by Jack Levine
    18 Jan. 2022
    “ CHRISTMAS IS ALL YOU WANT IT TO BE by Jack Levine is all you want it to be -- mostly hilarious. Imagine a female Shelley Berman, that's what we have here, as a quotidian little get-together with a friend, unspools into an outrageous offstage slapstick riot. The perfect interlude for a program of Christmas plays, or to be performed at a theater group's Christmas party, it is guaranteed to bring down the house. Jack's experience as a comic is really brought to bear here. ”
  • Tinnitus, Static, and Him by Jarred Corona
    17 Jan. 2022
    “ First of all, TINNITUS, STATIC, AND HIM will play like a mother, because Jarred Corona has got an ear, he has got a GD, MF ear and they will not even have to direct the actors because these words act themselves. Luca is a staggeringly complex troubled, troubling protagonist. You may or may not like him or what he does or the choices he makes, but it feels impossible to judge him, because Corona puts you inside him, inside his head, with a precision and balance stunning to behold in a young writer. I am going to follow Corona's work. ”

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