Professor Stafford’s Play Among New York Times’ Picks to “Invigorate”
Everything is Here, written by Peggy Stafford, assistant professor and co-chair of Playwriting and Screenwriting, was featured in a roundup of plays to see.
In a theatre roundup that promises “13 Plays (and 2 Festivals) to Invigorate Your December,” the New York Times included Everything Is Here, a play written by Assistant Professor of Playwriting Peggy Stafford.
In the play, actors Mia Katigbak, Jan Leslie Harding, and Petronia Paley portray residents of an assisted living facility who spend time in the common room and reenact scenes from Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire.
Thinking Theater NYC writes,
“Everything is Here contemplate the realities of aging with laugh-out-loud humor, a well-earned pathos tinged with melancholy, and a few fitting dashes of absurdity.”
The Times notes the play has “serious downtown bona fides” despite its Midtown Manhattan location—it’s presented In Collaboration with New Georges, a program that helps steward artist-driven independent productions of new works, with additional support from Clubbed Thumb, an advocate and incubator for funny, strange, and provocative new plays by living American writers, and produced by The Tank, an Obie Award-winning, multidisciplinary non-profit arts presenter and producer.
Learn more about Everything is Here at newgeorges.org.
Stafford is a Brooklyn-based playwright whose works include Ambulette: A Non-Emergency Vehicle, Behind the Attic Wall, 16 Words or Less, and more.
Her plays have been produced and developed at theatres such as Soho Rep, Playwrights Horizons, Two River Theater, The Playhouse in Derry, Northern Ireland, and more.