Playwright Rabe (Hurlyburly , etc.), in this collection, navigates the troubled lives of men set adrift by economic hopelessness, traumatic childhoods and their own inability to connect. The narrator ...

Undermain Theatre producing artistic director Bruce DuBose plays an unnamed narrator telling a nightmare story in the premiere of David Rabe's one-man show "Suffocation Theory," filmed in Undermain's ...

This is James Taylor with Theatre Talk. In 1967 David Rabe returned from a tour of duty in Vietnam and began to write. Five years later, his second play, Sticks and Bones, won the Tony award for Best ...

Madness is red meat for playwrights. In the disjointed ravings of Ophelia, Lear, and Edgar-as-Poor-Tom, Shakespeare gives himself permission to go avant-garde amid the iambs. Tennessee Williams built ...

A program note gives plenty of notice that A Question of Mercy examines difficult issues, and the first scene certainly sets a somber, thoughtful tone. However, playwright David Rabe’s look at AIDS ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Undermain Theatre presents Whither Goest Thou America, its third series of ...

"Streamers," director Robert Altman's 1983 adaptation of David Rabe's Tony-nominated play, is like a Rorschach test for those debating the issue of gays in the military. Proponents of either side of ...

3 Ian McKellen and More Will Lead Mixed Reality Play AN ARK at The Shed 4 PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK: The Musical Will Premiere Off-Broadway With Tatianna Córdoba and More "In my experience, the Chain ...

David Rabe reads his story “ My Friend Pinocchio,” from the February 10, 2025, issue of the magazine. Rabe is the author of more than a dozen plays, including “ Sticks and Bones,” “ In the Boom Boom ...

NEW YORK — Consider the characters. A 12-year-old with “big storms inside” that she can only control by cutting herself. A mother who gets excruciating headaches whenever she thinks of her son. A ...