Topic: Adam Bock

ICM Adds Theater Agent, Promotes 2 in NY

Veteran theater agent Val Day has joined ICM. She previously was at WME, where she repped the estate of Eugene O'Neill; playwrights Athol Fugard...

Clerical Terror

If I tell you I've seen a newish play that involves reams of numbing everyday chatter, a flirtatious young woman and a woebegone man in a pleasantly ordinary setting, a nattering motherly type who runs the joint, and a good-looking fellow ...

The Drunken City

Adam Bock's The Drunken City goes from tipsy to topsy-turvy in the wink of an eye. Bock's metropolis is like one of those Shakespearean forests where-perhaps fueled by magic potions-anything is possible for a night: Love can be instant, vows ...

Predagory Friending

I've never done the book-club thing myself-who's got time, with all the theater?-so I'll take it on faith that Karen Zacarias has done justice to the horror in The Book Club Play.. Apparently a few local reading clubs ...

The Receptionist reviewed!

For the first half hour or so of Adam Bock's brief, extraordinary dark comedy The Receptionist, audiences may wonder what exactly they are watching. Bock's intense initial focus on the routine goes to the heart of The Receptionist's pointed ...