Tall Tales from BLackburn Tavern
commissioned by Gloucester Stage Company
World Premiere, September 1-24, 2023
"Splendid ... Captures both the thrill of the spooky story and its moral ... with subtlety and finesse... Minigan manages to give this familiar tale a fresh eye."
--Terry Byrne, The Boston Globe
"One part fabulous fun and one part scary storytelling"
--Kevin T. Baldwin, METRMAG
"Good old-fashioned storytelling"
--Don Aucoin, The Boston Globe
"Perfect for our times"
--Joyce Kulhawik, JoycesChoices.com
"Amazingly edgy ... brilliantly adapted"
--BostonandBeyondEventDates.com
West Coast Premiere, 6th Street Playhouse, Santa Rosa, California, October 12 to November 5, 2023
--Terry Byrne, The Boston Globe
"One part fabulous fun and one part scary storytelling"
--Kevin T. Baldwin, METRMAG
"Good old-fashioned storytelling"
--Don Aucoin, The Boston Globe
"Perfect for our times"
--Joyce Kulhawik, JoycesChoices.com
"Amazingly edgy ... brilliantly adapted"
--BostonandBeyondEventDates.com
West Coast Premiere, 6th Street Playhouse, Santa Rosa, California, October 12 to November 5, 2023
Thanks to the wonderful folks at Advice to the Players for their July 2022 outdoor workshop production of The Merchant of Venice Beach!
Thanks to all who came to see NOIR HAMLET
at the Edinburgh Fringe
Great houses, great reviews, and so much laughter
Read about the process and the show in the Edinburgh Fringe blog, here
Thanks to Hey Jonte! Productions for the brilliant NYC production of
Breaking the Shakespeare Code in May-June 2019!
"...splendidly funny and smart"
Jed Ryan,
lavenderafterdark.com
"Breaking the Shakespeare Code is thrilling. It is also thrillingly well-crafted. John Minigan’s dialogue is fast paced, quippy, and profound."
Kenneth Laboy,
TheaterThatMatters.com
photo, Ben Asen
Breaking the Shakespeare Code in May-June 2019!
"...splendidly funny and smart"
Jed Ryan,
lavenderafterdark.com
"Breaking the Shakespeare Code is thrilling. It is also thrillingly well-crafted. John Minigan’s dialogue is fast paced, quippy, and profound."
Kenneth Laboy,
TheaterThatMatters.com
photo, Ben Asen
What the critics have said about the Elliot Norton Outstanding New Script nominee
Noir Hamlet,
EDGEMedia Best of Boston Theater, 2018!
Boston Globe Critics' Pick
"Pitch-perfect comedy"
--BroadwayBaby.com
"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
"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 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
For full reviews click on the links above or go to the LINKS page.
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Vagabond Theatre Group's production of Breaking the Shakespeare Code, The Factory Theatre, Boston, March 2014.
Photo by Paul Cantillon
Photo by Paul Cantillon
Good Company Theater's production of Breaking the Shakespeare Code, Ogden UT, 2013. Photo by Alicia Washington
Book release event for the New England New Play Anthology,
with (seated) Kirsten Greenidge, MJ Halberstadt, Johnny Kuntz and (standing) editors Patrick Gabridge and Laura Neill
About Family Planning
"The play that ends the 'Fears and Phobias' compilation is 'Family Planning' by John Minigan.
To me, it was the most potent."
CityPulse, Lansing, MI
To me, it was the most potent."
CityPulse, Lansing, MI
ABOUT NOISE
"...a Beckett-flavored comedy routine with a deceptively complex text"
The Pittsburgh Press
The Pittsburgh Press
ABOUT THE MALTESE WALTER
"... 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
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
Bryan Stubbles, Front Row Reviewers Utah
