The most significant writer to emerge from Withernsea – let's face it, the only writer to emerge from Withernsea – Tom Wells has quietly built up a reputation for sweet, compassionate plays about everyday folk from an east Yorkshire coastal town so remote its inhabitants consider Hornsea, up the coast, a metropolis.
Kaizen reaches for better days; Kokoro Zukai, compassionate plays.
(Rooney) ★ 'Bethany' A single mother (the terrific America Ferrera) fights to win back custody of her child — lost to foster care when she became homeless — in Laura Marks's smart, compassionate play, featuring a fine supporting cast and sensitive direction by Gaye Taylor Upchurch (1 30).
(Brantley) ★ 'Bethany' A single mother (the terrific America Ferrera) fights to win back custody of her child — lost to foster care when she became homeless — in Laura Marks's smart, compassionate play, featuring a fine supporting cast and sensitive direction by Gaye Taylor Upchurch (1 30).
(Isherwood) Off Broadway ★ 'Bethany' A single mother (the terrific America Ferrera) fights to win back custody of her child — lost to foster care when she became homeless — in Laura Marks's smart, compassionate play, featuring a fine supporting cast and sensitive direction by Gaye Taylor Upchurch (1 30).
(Gates) ★ 'Bethany' (closes on Sunday) A single mother (the terrific America Ferrera) fights to win back custody of her child — lost to foster care when she became homeless — in Laura Marks's smart, compassionate play, featuring a fine supporting cast and sensitive direction by Gaye Taylor Upchurch (1 30).
This is a lovely, compassionate play full of old-fashioned virtues and it gets a production to match its filigree delicacy in James Dacre's revival which is so beautifully designed by Jonathan Fensom that you can almost smell the herbs in the garden.
A compassionate contemporary play with the spare, emotional clout of a Greek tragedy.
In his 20s, Chapin had already written several acclaimed plays, compassionate one-act vignettes of life among the poor and struggling, and leisurely comedies that read like precursors of Private Lives.
In American Madness (1932) a compassionate bank president (played by Walter Huston) tries to stem the tide of Depression-panicked customers making a run on his beleaguered institution.
(Brantley) 'queerSpawn' (closes on Sunday) Mallery Avidon's compassionate, bleakly funny play finds a high school freshman (the excellent David Rosenblatt) enduring daily humiliations — and worse — at the hands of gay-hating bullies.
