FREE READING of Boston Globe Critics' Pick NOIR HAMLET
Wednesday, July 18
6:30 pm
Urban Stages
259 West 30th Street, NYC
Free but limited seating--first-come-first-seated, doors open at 6:00

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What the critics said about the Boston production, presented by Centastage, directed by Joe Antoun

Boston Globe Critics' Pick for the weeks of
June 17 and June 24, 2018




"Highly recommend[ed]…very, very clever… extremely funny… wicked fun”
--Jared Bowen, WGBH-Boston, Arts This Week

"A 90-minute side-splitter...It's been going on three years since the last Centastage production, but the wait has been worth it."
--Killian Melloy, EdgeMedia.com

"A wacky, whiskey soaked send-up...hilarious mayhem"
--Beverly Creasey, Boston Arts Review

"Very funny...Highly recommended"
Don Aucoin, The Boston Globe 



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Happy to announce that Queen of Sad Mischance will be part of Dayton Playhouse's FutureFest and is a finalist for the 2018 O'Neill National Playwrights' Conference and the Kitchen Dog Theater in Dallas


Click Below for QUiNToN Kappel's film of my shorT
A Monogamy of Swans,
​Most recently seen at the Lee STRASBERG INstitute in New York

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What the press says about Breaking the Shakespeare Code
(2014 Elliot Norton Award Nominee for Outstanding New Script produced in Boston and
official selection of the 2014 NY and Ithaca Fringe Festivals)
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"Compelling... One of the finest plays you'll see at Fringe this season."
Pete Hempstead, theatermania.com

"Prepare to be blown away...John Minigan’s Breaking the Shakespeare Code is bold, brutal, brave, beguiling and brilliant."
David Roberts and Joseph Verlezza, NY Fringe Festival Review, theatrereviews.com

"Engrossing and delicious fun."
Cindy Pierre, NY Fringe Festival Review, fringereview.co.uk

"I hope [this production] has a future beyond FringeNYC as smart plays are in short supply these days."
David Lally, nytheaternow.com

"[Minigan] creates a taut (and fraught) intellectual and sexual connection between the two characters... The script ... pierces like a javelin into essential, central truths... A literate, flinty, insightful script."
Kilian Melloy, EDGE

"Pick of the Fringe ... outstanding"
fringereviewus.wordpress.com

"A taut relationship drama about a series of acting lessons that turn into emotional duels... The kind of tense entanglement that happens in real life but rarely onstage..."
Ellen Fagg, Salt Lake Tribune

"A great new play... Top notch... The play unfolds in three sections that cover 16 years in this relationship, and it's a real roller-coaster."
Joyce Kulhawik, joyceschoices.com, Boston

"...A serious comedy... Educating Rita transferred to the rehearsal room, made a little weightier and quite a
bit meatier, too...  Minigan's two characters are terrifically appealing..."
Elizabeth Maupin, The Orlando Sentinel

For full reviews click on the links above or go to the LINKS page.
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Breaking the Shakespeare Code in rehearsal for video shoot. Hey Jonte! Productions LLC, Lincoln Center, NY,  January 2014
Simon Raymundo Photography 2013
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Vagabond Theatre Group's production of Breaking the Shakespeare Code, The Factory Theatre, Boston, March 2014.
Photo by Paul Cantillon
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ABOUT NOISE
"...a Beckett-flavored comedy routine with a deceptively complex text"
The Pittsburgh Press

 

ABOUT THE MALTESE W​ALTER
"... a tour-de-force"
John Farrell, presstelegram.com

"uproarious... what Minigan does best is [use] the comedy as a sleight of hand that distracts from a completely unexpected climax"
grumpygaycritic.co.uk


    "... a mix of Sigmund Freud and Dashiell Hammett, and maybe even Walter Mitty"
Bondo Wyszpolski, easyreadernews.com

About A Monogamy of Swans

"An absurd, interesting, heartfelt and viciously funny play."
Bryan Stubbles, Front Row Reviewers Utah