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Home » Bilal Dardai

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Posted inArts & Culture

Ladies and Martians

by Kerry Reid October 16, 2020August 18, 2021

The Neo-Futurists and Theatre in the Dark offer shows for the spookiest of election seasons.

Posted inArts & Culture

From ghostly to gothic to goofy, theater artists celebrate the season

by Catey Sullivan October 13, 2020August 18, 2021

Random Acts, Unwell, and PlayMakers Laboratory create scary stories to share (online) in the dark.

Posted inArts & Culture

45 Plays for America’s First Ladies puts the wives (and nieces) in the spotlight

by Catey Sullivan October 5, 2020August 18, 2021

The Neo-Futurists create short digital plays about the often-overlooked women in the White House.

Posted inArts & Culture

In Language Rooms, an Egyptian American interrogator struggles to prove his loyalty to the U.S.A.

by Kerry Reid May 1, 2019August 18, 2021

“Unless your being innocent is as interesting to them as being guilty, you will not be believed.”

Posted inArts & Culture

The Man Who Was Thursday’s visual splendors compensate for its extreme verbosity

by Dmitry Samarov February 28, 2019August 18, 2021

When you get tired of listening to spies, there’s a beautiful set and lighting.

Posted inArts & Culture

The Neo-Futurists’ latest is too much like Too Much Light . . .

by Tony Adler August 9, 2017August 18, 2021

Served in bites, The Food Show supplies just a few good tastes.

Trevor Dawkins under clothesline, Kurt Chiang in the background
Posted inArts & Culture

Too Much Light at 25: An oral history

by Janet Potter December 16, 2013August 19, 2021

The Neo-Futurists reflect on a quarter century of their forever-running show, Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind.

Bilal Dardai
Posted inArts & Culture

Too much chaos makes The Sovereign Statement go wrong

by Tony Adler October 30, 2013August 19, 2021

The Neo-Futurists’ new The Sovereign Statement show starts out well, then confuses itself.

Posted inBlogs

Reader’s Agenda Wed 10/30: The Sovereign Statement, The Normal Heart, and All Hallow’s Eve Eve

by Jillian Sandler October 30, 2013August 19, 2021

What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Wednesday, October 30

Posted inArts & Culture

Our guide to fall theater 2013

by Tony Adler, Tal Rosenberg, Deanna Isaacs, Jack Helbig, Danette Chavez and Sam Worley September 12, 2013August 19, 2021

Our guide to fall theater

Posted inArts & Culture

Nearly 60 plays in 3,600 seconds (give or take)

by Chelsea Hohn June 13, 2013August 19, 2021

Victory Gardens Biograph Theater hosts the third annual One Minute Play Festival.

Rush Pearson in Diary of a Madman, playing Friday
Posted inArts & Culture

Think of it as Yippie Easter

by Sharon Lurye August 15, 2012August 19, 2021

Highlights of this year’s Abbie Hoffman Died for Our Sins Theatre Festival

Posted inBlogs

10/23—Free Staged Reading by New Leaf Theatre

by John V. Santore October 22, 2010August 19, 2021

New Leaf Theatre hosts a free staged reading of Bilal Dardai’s The Man Who Was Thursday on Sat 10/23.

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