Thinking Theater NYC

Fastened to the Moon Written by Linda Kampley Directed by Kathleen Swan Presented by American Renaissance Theater Company at the Chain Theatre 312 W. 36th St., 4th floor, Manhattan, NYC September 15-October 1, 2022 (L) Nick W. (Astronaut #2), Pёtra Denison (Katherine), (R) Ryan Clardy (Astronaut 1). Photo by Michele Becker Fastened to the Moon , for which playwright Linda Kampley won the 2019 Jerry Kaufman Award for excellence in playwriting, wastes no time in laying a firm grasp on the audience's attention, dropping spectators immediately into the midst of some clearly untoward goings on. Twenty-three-year-old Katherine (Pёtra Denison) is still in a hazy state of medicated half-sleep when her husband, Robert (Ryan Wesen) tells her that he is leaving–in the dark of night–for a multi-day fishing charter. Days later, Katherine hasn't seen any sign of Robert, but she has seen a pair of astronauts, and she is about to meet a pair of law enforcement officers who would like to see R...

To She Who Waits Written by Bob Clyman Directed by Maria Aladren Presented by  The American Renaissance Theater Company  at  Theatre 54 244 W. 54th St., 12th floor, Manhattan, NYC May 23-June 8, 2019 Carol Todd and Lee Eden. Photo credit: Michele Becker Set primarily in Mccullough County, the geographical heart of Texas, 2018 Kaufman Award-winner Bob Clyman’s new play, To She Who Waits , has at its own heart a perceptively drawn and keenly affecting mother-daughter relationship. When we first meet Meg (Carol Todd), her 16 year-old daughter Hannah (Lee Eden) is angrily calling her a liar during a court-appointed visit. Meg has a limited time before the court system, along with Hannah herself, decides whether Hannah will be returned to her mother’s custody and move to Austin or will remain in the extremist Christian community called “The Realm” to which her father, Jack (Brian Homer), signed over legal guardianship of Hannah before he died. To She Who Wait...