Playwrights Horizons

Playwrights Horizons launches its Unplugged wing—devoted to minimalist stagings that focus on performance and text—with the world premiere of Jacob Perkins's ensemble drama about a women's recovery group that meets weekly for a period that seems to stretch into forever. Les Waters (Dana H.) directs a wow of an ensemble cast led by NYC stage legends Kathleen Chalfant and Elizabeth Marvel and filled out very nicely indeed by April Matthis, Keilly McQuail, Mallory Portnoy ​​and Maria Elena Ramirez.

The Bushwick Starr collaborated with HERE and Ma-Yi Theater Company last year to present the world premiere of an unusual work by writer-director Shayok Misha Chowdhury, who was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for his lovely drama Public Obscenities. Playwrights Horizons is bringing it back this spring for another spin. The show explores his connections to his physicist mother, Bulbul Chakraborty—including through their shared loved of music—as well as the gaps between their scientific and artistic approaches to the world. Chowdury's mother helped create the piece, and performs it alongside him.