Articles Tagged With: Paula Vogel

The Long Christmas Ride Home at The Strand Theater

Reviews December 8, 2025 Erin Tarpley

author: Erin Tarpley

“Well, what a lovely Christmas you’ve given me”

The weather outside is frightful, but inside The Stand Theater, tidings of comfort and joy are complex and raw (and theatric!) in their opening production of their 18th season.

Directed by Tessara Morgan Farley, Paula Vogel’s The Long Christmas Ride Home is not merely a play: it is a profound, breathtaking piece of theatrical artistry that transcends the familiar boundaries of the American family drama.

Brown Sugar Bake-Off at The Strand Theater

Reviews June 3, 2025 Erin Tarpley

author: Erin Tarpley

Why go out for a night of theatre to see one play when you can go out and see eight?! In this Co-Production between Strand Theater Company and Two Strikes Theatre Collective, Brown Sugar Bake-Off presents a night (or matinee) of eight 10-minute plays that focus on the theme of mental health, as told through the voices of Black women and non-binary playwrights.

This year’s 10-Minute Play Festival,

Indecent at Endangered Species Theatre Project

Reviews November 23, 2024 Amanda N. Gunther

You go to the theatre for a little relief, to be a community of people who laugh together. Or perhaps in this case, clutch their hands to their hearts and cry together. God of Vengeance, a real play by Sholem Asch, written in 1906, was surrounded by controversy, and on March 8th 1923, the Broadway production was cut short when the entire cast, producer, and one of the theatre owners were arrested and indicted (and later convicted) on charges of obscenity…of indecency.

How I Learned To Drive at Vagabond Players

Reviews February 18, 2024 Erin Tarpley

One might think that a play with a title like How I Learned to Drive would depict a story that goes places; and by its own design, this is a play that goes many places and goes in circles (while in reverse) at the same time. But that being said, while funny and well told, Paula Vogel’s Pulitzer Prize winning play How I Learned to Drive is not for the faint of heart.