The playwright Mac Wellman makes word worlds — he toys with language and essentially lets it go where it wants to go. A self-described “damnable scribbler” and tickler of fancies ...

My new favorite kind of conviviality, it turns out. Originally written in 2004 and having its world premiere now, Mac Wellman's exuberant mini-masterpiece is a refreshingly idiosyncratic ...

Mac Wellman's Sincerity Forever is the sort of play students like. Why? It seems to be daring, has "those words" in it, Jesus H. Christ (a slim black woman) is a character, and it would upset ...

They produced MAC WELLMAN'S DRACULA back in 2004 in the earliest days of their history with a performance at 1415 California Street. That version was stripped down without much in the way of sets ...

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On Tuesday, playwright Mac Wellman opted to see "Grimly Handsome," written and directed by Julia Jarcho, at Incubator Arts in the East Village. Mr. Wellman's plays include "Sincerity Forever ...

On the other hand, we have "Energumen," a paranoid satire by Mac Wellman, whose frequently cryptic, language-focused work is known principally to hard-core theater wonks. But Artistic Director ...

Antigone: Experimental drama. By Mac Wellman. Directed by Erin Merritt. (Through Nov. 11. Woman's Will. Temescal Arts Center, 511 48th St., Oakland. 80 minutes ...

Mac Wellman is a propagandist, an agitator, a pamphleteer. He's a linguistic bomb thrower, the Thomas Paine of the theater, sounding an alarm at the end of the 20th century about what a farce ...

“A bad penny always turns up” is a platitude that packs an unexpected existential punch, at least in the sardonic world of New York playwright Mac Wellman. In Wellman’s Obie Award-winning ...