Tag Archives: Joshua Harmon

‘Would You Sacrifice Your Identity’ Queried In GableStage’s Prayers for the French Republic

Would we abandon our history, our nationality or our faith to maintain another part of our identity if we faced overwhelming social prejudice? GableStage’s Prayer for the French Republic depicts a family like your own struggling to sort out these issues as specific and inescapable as life and death.

Posted on March 23, 2026 by Bill Hirschman
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GableStage’s Admissions Asks Liberals What Happens When It’s Your Own Ox Being Gored?

GableStage’s Admissions is one of the more uncomfortable evenings of theater that avowed liberals and proud progressives will sit through any time soon. It holds up an unsparing mirror that asks whether such advocates will stay true to their ideals when the consequences directly affect them and their families.

Posted on October 16, 2018 by Bill Hirschman
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Main Street Players’ Vicious Voluble Family In Bad Jews Is Equally Funny And Unnerving

One of the joys of seeing local theater over the years is charting a new theater’s growth and promise. But it’s rare to see a fledgling theater develop so quickly as Main Street Players, as evidenced by its no-excuses-needed production of Bad Jews.

Posted on July 26, 2017 by Bill Hirschman
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Strife Over Faith, Heritage Devastates A Family In GableStage’s Searing Bad Jews

As if it was even needed, molten lava in the guise of scalding verbal acrimony ravages the apartment where incendiary family strife already was poised to detonate into devastation in GableStage’s uproarious and upsetting Bad Jews.

Posted on November 23, 2014 by Bill Hirschman
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