The Jungle Theater

'Le Switch' -- Le Sigh: A Review of Phillip Dawkins’s New play at The Jungle Theater
Posted by Nadja Leonhard-Hooper on Monday, June 27, 2016 at 12:00 AM By Nadja Leonhard-Hooper / June 27, 2016 Comment
DN1_6077v2 Meet David. He’s the protagonist of Le Switch, a play now having its world premiere at the Jungle Theater under the direction of Jeremy Cohen. David is a 35 year-old gay librarian who loves long walks by the water, has a deep love for collecting rare books that he never opens and a deeper ambivalence about marriage. Everyone wants David to find someone. His best friend Zachary is getting married. His sister Sarah is already married. Even Frank, his never-married but deeply committed roommate, thinks he should get over himself and get into something serious. David asks “Don’t...

The Jungle’s 'Gertrude Stein and a Companion' is a Landmark Revival
Posted by Ryan Sanderson on Friday, January 30, 2015 at 12:00 AM By Ryan Sanderson / January 30, 2015 Comment

Gertrude Stein - Jungle Theater

One glance around the Jungle Theater, as my friend and I took our seats for Tuesday night’s opening of Gertrude Stein and a Companion, I was fairly certain we were the youngest people in the audience by twenty years. There’s an aristocratic air to the design of the Jungle, from the seats to the stage, to the nine page list of donors in the program, to the portrait of Artistic Director Bain Boehlke in the front of every program staring at you like you just spilled ketchup all down the front of your shirt. While many smaller...