Irene Molloy’s story is incredible. She has been all over…emotionally, mentally, and physically…and she has absolutely come out on top. Getting to hear her story was extremely interesting, and I felt really privileged to experience it. Show Pony was a show that I think I could watch over and over again and still learn and gain more from it. Irene is a strong woman in so many ways, and it made her show all the more interesting. I think I was a lot more captivated by Show P

There are a lot of types of humor in this world. There’s typical humor, of course, but so many little branches that grow from that. There’s self-deprecating humor. There’s sad humor. There’s Jewish humor (trust me on that one, okay?) There is just so much, and My Needy Letters to Keith Urban collects all of these different kinds of humors and puts them into one sixty minute show. There was a lot more to the show, of course, but that variety of types of humor is what rea

Want to read some pre-show questions with Michael Hagins? Check them out here! Shakespeare can be really hard for people. Elizabethan English can be hard to follow…twisted plots and relationships can be hard to grasp. But there are people out there (myself included) who love Shakespeare. Yeah, we’re Shakespeare nerds. And one of the most amazing ones I’ve ever met, and had the pleasure to see on stage, was Michael Hagins. He’s someone who has a firm grasp on Shakespeare

You know those shows that are completely not what you thought they were going to be? That’s what Show Pony was for me. I walked in expecting one thing, and not too sure about what we’d be seeing, and I walked out thoroughly impressed and, in a way, changed. I absolutely love when that happens, honestly…these are the types of shows where I have preconceived notions, and I’m ecstatic that I’m proved wrong. From the small description I got about Show Pony, I thought I was go

The idea behind Conquering the Canon is extremely simple, but also extremely complicated. It’s a one-man show about Michael Hagins, the only African-American man to have been in all of Shakespeare’s canon. Well, sign me up yesterday! First of all, I am a huge Shakespeare fan, so I’ll eat up anything about the Bard. Secondly, I love when Shakespeare is performed differently from the way it was written. There’s a lot of that these days, with gender swapping and such. And

For me, there’s something about one-person shows that evokes so much in me. Especially when I’m watching something autobiographical. Some shows bring out more, and Is This Thing On? is one of those shows. Is This Thing On? is a one hour show by Adam Bradley, and one that was something completely eye opening and beautiful. There was so much to this play…there were moments to laugh, moments to cringe out, moments to cry, and so much more. I definitely ran the gamut of emot

Any Fringe can be a great vehicle to a new show. Writing and developing a show takes time, and when you’re pouring everything into that piece, you need a different kind of audience than you would get elsewhere. Fringe is good for a test. It’s sort of a smaller scale type of thing, and audiences going in know they’re going to be seeing something a bit different. You get to talk more about it, and continue to make it into something that will, someday, be absolutely grand. A

Photo credit to Mark Garvin. As a queer, trans non-binary person, I’m always on the lookout for representation. And while there’s a lot more of it now than throughout most of my twenty years being an out queer person, there’s still not a ton of it. Especially when it comes to the trans part. There’s a lot more awareness now, and it continues to rise, but we still don’t have a very loud voice. Draw the Circle presented some of the best trans awareness I’ve seen in a very

Happy almost 2026! This year has been quite a year for me, and for Zoe Writes Theatre. I celebrated my three years running this blog, and my little baby project just keeps growing and growing. Since we’re mere days away from the new year, I wanted to do a sort of year in review. 2025 was definitely very good to me, and I really can’t wait to see what 2026 brings me. At this point, it can only go up from here! So here is me, Zoe, reflecting on the past year. I hope you g

The holiday time is always a great time for theatre. We get a lot of cool stuff this time of year, whether it’s the traditional shows like A Christmas Carol or something different like A Christmas Carol Comedy (covered by me twice!) I started this blog around the holiday time (it will be exactly three years ago tomorrow!). There’s just so much cool stuff out there. I love that a lot of it is family friendly, or themed to the time of year, or even traditions found in oth