This September, three of Toronto’s most celebrated theatre companies—Soulpepper Theatre Company, Crow’s Theatre, and The Howland Company—will come together to present the Canadian premiere of THE ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sandra Oh makes for a very effective Henry Fonda, as he appeared in “Twelve Angry Men.” She also manages to convey Nancy Kelly at ...

The American premiere of The Welkin, written by Lucy Kirkwood (Tony Award nominee, The Children) and directed by Sarah Benson (Obie Award winner, Fairview) is now playing at Atlantic Theater Company.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For all that the play is set on the border between the remote English counties of Norfolk and Suffolk in 1759, the play ...

A pregnant woman’s life hangs in the balance in Lucy Kirkwood’s play “The Welkin” at the Atlantic Theater Company. That capsule description might seem to indicate a tussle with the frenzied politics ...

At a little after 5 p.m. last Thursday, a jury in New York found former president Donald Trump guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. Immediately, my phone was flooded with ...

Actor Sandra Oh joins Hoda & Jenna to talk about her new off-Broadway play called “The Welkin” about a jury of women in 1759 who have to decide on whether to put another woman to death — but “it’s ...

Rural England, 1759. As the country awaits the return of Halley’s comet, a young woman is sentenced to death. When she tries to escape the noose by claiming she is pregnant, twelve ordinary women are ...

So the fact that playwright Lucy Kirkwood, whose Chimerica was a brilliant rocket that lit up the sky in 2013, has set her feminist play about women's bodies and experiences in the mid 18th century ...

Lucy Kirkwood’s huge new drama pulls 18th century lives thrillingly into present-day focus. For all that the play is set on the border between the remote English counties of Norfolk and Suffolk in ...