The Tenant was named one of the ten best things on stage in 2011 by our old swimming buddies at the The L Magazine. They called us ‘shoestring, site-specific, geniuses,’ which made us blush.

In addition we were mentioned as part of one of the top theater stories of the year at Playbill, and they reminded everyone to watch this again, because it’s awesome.

Capering impishly between campy B-horror and a deadly serious revisionist Sunday-school lesson, Robert Askins’s daffily devout black comedy is just the sort of juicy little morsel the hard-bitten theatervore hopes to find, and seldom does, Off Broadway.

Read more at New York Magazine, The New York Times, & TheaterMania.

The New York Times boasted:

Mac Wellman’s “3 2’s; or AFAR” offers the playwright’s typically dizzying and fluid unfurling of language. References, registers and nonsense rhymes fly with madcap precision…everything in “3 2’s; or AFAR” eludes, and deliciously so.

Read more at The New York Times.

Alexis Soloski at The Village Voice reported:

His theater seems to defy rational description. It requires that you be present–breathing, watching, and most of all listening–in the performance space as Wellman’s words surround you. Being and time are what he demands of you–and the rewards are ample.

Read more at The Village Voice.

Additional reviews at New York Theatre Review, nytheatre.com.

Asuncion, the new play written by and starring Oscar nominee Jesse Eisenberg, has extended three weeks at off-Broadway’s Cherry Lane Theatre. The Rattlestick Playwrights Theater production will now close on December 18 instead of November 27 as previously announced.

Directed by Kip Fagan, the play also stars The Hangover’s Justin Bartha.

Read more at Broadway.com, Playbill.com, and BroadwayWorld.com.

In conjunction with The Amoralists’ upcoming run of HotelMotel, their site-specific double feature at The Gershwin Hotel with a World Premiere by Derek Ahonen and a New York Premiere by Adam Rapp, The Amoralists present Theatre Where You Least Expect, a panel discussion about the challenges, joys, and importance of site-specific theater, the role of the audience and the types of spaces that work best.

Read more at BroadwayWorld.com or TheaterMania.com.

The play focuses on Jane, a single mom in her late 30s who has shut down after her husband’s death.

The show will feature scenic design by Louisa Thompson, costume design by Jessica Pabst, lighting design by Matt Frey, original sound design by Matt Tierney, and original music by Peter Eldridge.

Read more at TheaterMania.com or Playbill.com.

Caridad Svich has won the $10,000 Francesca Primus Prize for her play The House of the Spirits. Jointly sponsored by ATCA and the Francesca Ronnie Primus Foundation, the Primus Prize is given annually to an emerging woman theater.

Svich’s play is a dramatic adaptation of Isabel Allende’s sprawling novel, The House of the Spirits, which follows the fortunes of three generations of a Chilean family against the backdrop of political upheaval that shaped and split the country during the major part of the 20th Century. The play was read as part of the 2010 Colorado New Play Summit and given a full production at the Denver Center Theatre Company in the fall.

Read full article at TheaterMania.com.