Black Coffee: 7 New Plays That Aren't Afraid of the Dark

See it if you're interested in how 8 millennial playwrights (& their millennial casts & creative teams) look their doomed future straight in the eye.

Don't see it if you can't believe in climate change (& the eco-disaster it will wreak), even for 2 hours.

Also Not much of what I've seen in NYC's prestigious theaters this year has impressed me as much as "Black Coffee," a bill of 8 short plays by millennial playwrights that looks the end of the world straight in the eye. (Casts & creative teams are millennials too; Brunch Theatre’s aim is giving millennials a voice in the theater.) What a shame that, by the end of the run, only a few hundred people will have seen this smart, funny, bracing, often touching bunch of short plays, performed on the 2nd floor of the defunct NY Central Art Supply store. In play after play eco-disaster & our total dependence on more & more complex technologies do us in. The little human body never seems more important than when people are facing extinction. That’s what makes this kind of shoestring theater, without the special effects of film, TV or Broadway available, the best place for exploring the crises to come. Hats off to Brunch Theatre for exploiting its oh-so-human resources to the max.... Read more Read less