Review: "The Dark Outside" Suggests that You Can Go Home Again
The Dark Outside Written by Bernard Kops Directed by Jack Serio Presented at Theater for the New City 155 First Avenue (between 9th and 10th Streets), Manhattan, NYC November 6-28, 2021 Austin Pendleton in The Dark Outside , by Bernard Kops, directed by Jack Serio, presented by Theater for the New City. Photo by Emilio Madrid. A father's birthday brings a family together, literally and otherwise, in the world premiere of The Dark Outside by celebrated playwright Bernard Kops, who will himself turn 95 on the final day of the show's run. Since his career began in the 1950s, London-born Kops has written more than 40 plays, in addition to a pair of autobiographies and numerous novels, books of poetry, and radio plays, and he is the first Jewish recipient of a Civil List pension, awarded by the Queen, for his services to literature. In the intimate, lyrical The Dark Outside , encounters with the darkness of the title need not mean capitulation. Set in England, The Dark Outside unfo...