Films and plays about returning Iraq War vets tend to dwell, understandably, on the soldiers’ enormous emotional and physical burdens. Yet playwright Julie Marie Myatt sagely realizes civilians can ...
Think of war and posttraumatic stress disorder, and the mind veers toward explosions: noisy, irrevocable violence both physical and emotional. But that’s not the case in the subtle, wonderfully acted ...
With the Iraq War winding down, it’s likely we’ll see a whole spate of theatrical works about veterans coming home. Many of them will fall in the vein of Welcome Home, Jenny Sutter, a play that ...
Sign up to receive our email newsletter in your inbox. Sometimes it pays to read the play’s description before entering the theater. Contrary to what “Welcome ...
It was hidden in the diaper of a baby, and Jenny watched helplessly as the baby’s head was blown off, 15 people died, and Jenny herself ended losing the bottom of her right leg. 19 months after she ...
1 Contest: Win Opening Night Tickets to TITANIQUE on Broadway Next Theatre Company's second production of their 32nd season is the Midwest premiere of Welcome Home, Jenny Sutter by Julie Marie Myatt ...
The war is over for Jenny Sutter. She comes home minus most of her right leg and filled with nightmares that leave her screaming and flailing through the night. But Jenny (Omoze Idehenre) isn’t quite ...
On Saturday, the Keegan Theatre welcomes “Basra Boy” to the Church Street Theater for a world premiere. Penned by Northern Irish playwright Rosemary Jenkinson, the play follows two trouble-making ...
Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. From the beginning, Next Act's production turns routine theater statistics ...
Walking down the streets of downtown Los Angeles a couple of years ago, I was approached by a nicely dressed woman carrying a cat on her shoulder. I thought she was going to ask me for directions, but ...