Wendy MacLeod

  Heading into the new play written by an “A-list lineup of writers with 2 Pulitzer Prizes, 4 Obies, 1 Emmy® and 3 Tony® nominations” I expected that the evening would make me laugh … but not till my sides hurt. I expected to be moved … but not to tears.  Standing On Ceremony: The [...]

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We all want to feel deeply connected to someone else in a new way that surprises us.  How that connection comes about  - emotionally, physically, mentally or sexually – is actually secondary.  When that unexpected connection locks in there’s a heightened state of awareness that can overpower our conventional systems and methods, an allure that [...]

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Four writers plus one audience equals Connect Five – The Common Tongue’s evening of one-act plays which will be going on from January 5 – 16 at The Ars Nova Building.  The night brings together two emerging playwrights – Danny Mitarotondo (recipient of the Edward F. Albee Writing Fellowship) and Bronwen Prosser (Vital Theatre’s The [...]

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It’s A Family Thing At “The House Of Yes”

by Karen Tortora-Lee April 20, 2010 Manhattan

Full disclosure – I went to Heathcliff Entertainment’s production of The House of Yes (written by Wendy MacLeod and directed by Brandt Reiter) full of anticipation.  The movie of the same name (based on MacLeod’s play) had long been my litmus test; if someone loved the film as much as I did, then I knew we’d [...]

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