‘Is This A Room’ Broadway Review: The Unnerving Interrogation Of Reality Winner As Impeccable Drama
Throughout the course of its taut 70 minutes, the remarkable Is This A Room, opening tonight at Broadway’s Lyceum Theatre, prompts a steady, gut-churning stream of “what ifs” as audiences do exactly what whistleblower Reality Winner did during her 2017 FBI interrogation: We second-guess, we attempt to predict, we consider and reconsider every angle, we panic.
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‘Is This A Room’ Puts Reality on Stage
Reality has become a tricky, increasingly-elusive concept. With heavily-edited “reality” television, overly-curated social media profiles, and politically-minded accusations of “fake news,” the definition of what counts as “reality” is hazy at best. Is This A Room, conceived and directed by Tina Satter, puts this debate center stage by using an FBI interrogation transcript as the […]
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In ‘Lackawanna Blues’ Santiago-Hudson Builds a Memorial for the Forgotten
In 1983, in In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens, Alice Walker, wrote: “We are a people. A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children, and, if necessary, […]
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