Recommended by Chas LiBretto

  • Chas LiBretto: Attrition by Jack Horton Gilbert
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    Shades of Beckett, Dorfman, and Martin McDonagh, "Attrition" hones in on this paranoid, claustrophobic moment, and forces us to confront the complicit act of accepting collective delusions.

    Shades of Beckett, Dorfman, and Martin McDonagh, "Attrition" hones in on this paranoid, claustrophobic moment, and forces us to confront the complicit act of accepting collective delusions.

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  • Chas LiBretto: B.B.'s Inferno by A.J. Ditty
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    A full-stop adventure story that keeps audiences guessing, "BB’s Inferno" is full of heart, mystery, and humor. Many theatres commission adaptations of classics like “Treasure Island,” or “Sherlock Holmes,” but it’s a rare and welcome thing to see the adventure genre explored on the stage with original stories. Mixing influences as diverse as spaghetti western, Milton, “The Wizard of Oz,” and the music of the Foo Fighters, "BB’s Inferno" breaks new ground and tells a story that embraces theatricality and never fails to surprise its audience with a twist along its strangely moving quest.

    A full-stop adventure story that keeps audiences guessing, "BB’s Inferno" is full of heart, mystery, and humor. Many theatres commission adaptations of classics like “Treasure Island,” or “Sherlock Holmes,” but it’s a rare and welcome thing to see the adventure genre explored on the stage with original stories. Mixing influences as diverse as spaghetti western, Milton, “The Wizard of Oz,” and the music of the Foo Fighters, "BB’s Inferno" breaks new ground and tells a story that embraces theatricality and never fails to surprise its audience with a twist along its strangely moving quest.

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  • Chas LiBretto: brut by Dominic Finocchiaro
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    A beautiful, moving story about the importance of art, of family, and pain, and memory and mental illness and love, in all of its many messy manifestations. It's Chekhovian in the best possible way and I can't wait to see it someday.

    A beautiful, moving story about the importance of art, of family, and pain, and memory and mental illness and love, in all of its many messy manifestations. It's Chekhovian in the best possible way and I can't wait to see it someday.

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  • Chas LiBretto: El Coquí Espectacular and the Bottle of Doom by Matt Barbot
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    Got to see this play a few years ago and I continue to think about it. I'm always on the hunt for plays that utilize genre storytelling in exciting new ways, and this play does exactly that with superheroes and a whiz-bang pace of storytelling. Really just tremendous fun and moving and a story we need now more than ever.

    Got to see this play a few years ago and I continue to think about it. I'm always on the hunt for plays that utilize genre storytelling in exciting new ways, and this play does exactly that with superheroes and a whiz-bang pace of storytelling. Really just tremendous fun and moving and a story we need now more than ever.

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  • Chas LiBretto: Pareidolia by Kareem Fahmy
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    A haunting play about alienation and unknowability in the modern dating world. How well do we know the people on the other side of our dating apps? Can we ever know them? It's a thriller, it's a romantic comedy, and it dramatizes our cyber "reality" in ways that brought to my mind sci fi writers like Philip K Dick. I was on the edge of my seat by the end.

    A haunting play about alienation and unknowability in the modern dating world. How well do we know the people on the other side of our dating apps? Can we ever know them? It's a thriller, it's a romantic comedy, and it dramatizes our cyber "reality" in ways that brought to my mind sci fi writers like Philip K Dick. I was on the edge of my seat by the end.

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  • Chas LiBretto: The City in the City in the City by Matthew Capodicasa
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    I love this play. It's mysterious and strange and a wonderful showcase for two actresses. Echoes of Borges, Calvino, and Kafka but entirely it's own thing. I'm dying to see it. Matthew has the rare ability to create total worlds in his writing and plays like this make me eager to get lost in more of them soon.

    I love this play. It's mysterious and strange and a wonderful showcase for two actresses. Echoes of Borges, Calvino, and Kafka but entirely it's own thing. I'm dying to see it. Matthew has the rare ability to create total worlds in his writing and plays like this make me eager to get lost in more of them soon.

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  • Chas LiBretto: The Found Dog Ribbon Dance by Dominic Finocchiaro
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    Romantic, weird, fun, silly - and it grapples with something important: the human need for contact in an increasingly isolating world.

    Romantic, weird, fun, silly - and it grapples with something important: the human need for contact in an increasingly isolating world.

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  • Chas LiBretto: Trees in their youth by Dominic Finocchiaro
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    The definitive high school coming of age play. Highly recommended.

    The definitive high school coming of age play. Highly recommended.

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