http://showbusinessweekly.com/articles.sec-4-1-inside-ink.htmlPlaywright Kimberly Pau hits some fresh notes on contemporary teen angst in her new comedy/drama, Baby Plays the Banjo.]]>In Ken Kaissar’s daring new satire, A Modest Suggestion, four yes-men weigh the pros and cons of some pretty tough questions: What does it mean to be Jewish?]]>Have you ever thought about when the first beauty contest might have been held? I mean, there’s a first time for everything.]]>Three women come together one afternoon for a reading at the Middletown, New Jersey, home of a psychic, trying to come to terms with the loss of a loved one.]]>What strange things could befall theatergoers who enter a play called Sophie Gets the Horns?]]>The Flea Theater offers up its New Play Festival beginning April 20, with three world premieres set to hit the boards.]]>This may not be your grandmother’s Midsummer, but its one for 21st century New York City, with Hermia and Lysander re-imagined as lesbian lovers.]]>The always intriguing LAByrinth Theater Company is set to premiere Brett C. Leonard’s play Ninth and Joanie, about a South Philadelphia Italian-American family in crisis.]]>What actor doesn’t remember the thrill of being cast in your first or second or third play, and being handed your very own Samuel French script?]]>He will forever be known for a handful of some of the greatest American plays ever written, but Tennessee Williams’s output for the theater was deep and vast.]]>Our theatrical literature is full of plays about wartime and servicemen, from Journey’s End to South Pacific, from On The Town to Mister Roberts, from Streamers to Biloxi Blues… the list goes on.]]>Billed as “a farce of improbable darkness,” John J. Ronan’s The Yeats Game takes a look at middle-aged choices and their ridiculous consequences.]]>In Joyce Hokin Sachs’s play Eternal Equinox, the legendary Bloomsbury Group painters Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell are "the two and only" for dashing mountaineer George Mallory, who is about to leave on his third Everest expedition on a fall day in 1923.]]>SONG CYCLE CYCLES BACK: I’m a huge Adam Guettel fan; as you know, he’s the multi-award-winning composer/lyricist of The Light in the Piazza and Floyd Collins, among other daring and original musicals, and, like all other AG fans, I eagerly anticipate his next work.]]>VALENTINE’S DAZE: February is the Love Month, of course, and The Tank has got it going on with the World Premiere of the offbeat comedy An Evening of Awkward Romance, which, despite the title, aims to put the fun back into Valentine’s Day.]]>A plethora of playwrights takes on our ever-evolving language in The Urban Dictionary Plays, which kicks off 2012 for Ars Nova.]]>One of Off-Broadway’s finest companies, Signature Theatre, is moving to a fabulous new home. ]]>Those of you who know the iconoclastic plays of the great absurdist playwright Eugene Ionesco might not think that his works would lend themselves readily to musicalization.]]>I received one of my best Christmas presents right before the holidays from Alfred A. Knopf — the world-famous book publisher, of course.]]>When mental illness comes home, the entire family has special needs. That’s the guiding ethos of writer/performer Anne Pasquale’s 90-minute new solo piece.]]>