images — Kathleen Tolan

"Tolan nails the mother-daughter negotiation." Sarah Hart, American Theatre Magazine (July 2005)

"A captivating emotional ballet that is also a moving demonstration of the strenuous work that goes into good mothering." Christopher Isherwood, New York Times (May 18, 2005)

“Tolan's script is vivid and lively, laden with specifics -- like the noisy Rice Krispies whose crackling and popping terrified the young immigrant -- and with laughs.” Boston Globe (April 16, 2007)

“At first blush, this overview of Memory House, native Milwaukean Kathleen Tolan's latest play, looks less like a drama than yet another sentimental two-actor dialogue passing itself off as a play during an era in which theater company budgets requ

Selected Productions: HB Playwrights Foundation, directed by William Carden, 2000 Playwrights Horizons, directed by Brian Kulick, 2001 (Video recording in Lincoln Center Library Collection)

“…[T]here is plenty of pain in Kathleen Tolan’s 95-minute comedy [ (THE WAX) ]—not to mention rhapsodically clever writing and enough off-beat formal novelty to justify its description as an existential sex farce…[T]he writing is smart and funny an

Classic Stage Company, directed by Brian Kulick, featuring Martha Plimpton, April 2005 “A sparkling translation.” The New Yorker (listings, 4/05)

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MEMORY HOUSE

Playwrights Horizons, directed by David Esbjornson, featuring Dianne Wiest and Natalia Zvereva, April 2005 (Video recording in Lincoln Center Library Collection)

THE WAX

Playwrights Horizons, directed by Brian Kulick, 2001 (Video recording in Lincoln Center Library Collection)

Featuring Robert Dorfman, Laura Esterman, David Greenspan, Lola Pashalinski, Gareth Saxe, Mary Shultz, Mary Testa, Frank Wood, Karen Young

THE FOREST (by Ostrovsky, an adaptation)

Classic Stage Company, directed by Brian Kulick, featuring Dianne Wiest, John Douglas Thompson, and Adam Driver, 2010

FALSE SERVANT (by Marivaux, an adaptation)

Classic Stage Company, directed by Brian Kulick, featuring Martha Plimpton, April 2005

KATE'S DIARY

Playwrights Horizons and Public Theater, directed by David Greenspan, 1989

A WEEKEND NEAR MADISON

Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Humana Festival, directed by Emily Mann, featuring Holly Hunter and Mary McDonnell, 1983