THEATER: Lisa Kron’s solo play 2.5 Minute Ride, which won an OBIE when it premiered at the Public Theater in 1999, is currently being revived with Nicole Golden as the autobiographical “Lisa.” The play concerns Lisa's attempts to make a documentary about the life of her father, a German Jew who survived the Holocaust but lost his parents at Auschwitz. 2.5 Minute Ride finds him, in his later years, a blind diabetic with a heart......

Ancient Greek plays are constantly getting makeovers – modern interpretations are probably more common, at least on American stages, than versions that follow the original Greek format, with a chorus and all that. Oedipus at Palm Springs is, needless to say, another adaptation – but after you see this one you won’t be able to watch a Greek tragedy or think about the Oedipus myth (especially in the Freudian context) in the same way ever......

Mike Daisey, Monologuist...

We were stoked to read in Playbill that Academy Award-winning actress Holly Hunter (Thirteen, The Piano, Broadcast News) is playing first lady Laura Bush opposite Cynthia Nixon and Lisa Kron in a staged reading this week of Tony Kushner's Only We Who Guard the Mystery Shall Be Unhappy at the New York Theater Workshop, on a double bill with an encore presentation of Mark Crispin Miller�s Patriot Act: a Public Meditation . Co-starring with Hunter......