The worlds of playwright Noah Haidle’s “Smokefall” are disparate and inscrutable. Act I (titled “Help Me Remember”) unfolds in a Grand Rapids, Mich., that smacks of David Lynch’s fictitious Twin Peaks ...

The actor plays three characters in Noah Haidle’s brilliant, off-Broadway intergenerational family-based play, ‘Smokefall’—which deserves a Broadway transfer, ASAP. Senior Editor and Writer Just as ...

Backyard Renaissance is opening its stint as La Jolla Playhouse’s latest resident theater company with “Smokefall,” Noah Haidle’s defiantly eccentric play about (in part) a paint-eating teen-ager ...

If Thornton Wilder had dropped acid, he might have written “Smokefall,” a new play by Noah Haidle being given its world premiere at South Coast Repertory. The title, however, comes from T.S. Eliot’s ...

Violet (Brooke Calcagno) serves breakfast to daughter Beauty (Jessica Hildebrand), husband Daniel (Joe Von Appen) and father (Chris Porter) in "Smokefall." (Rosemary Ragusa) Sometimes breakfast is the ...

It was a first for this critic. Outside the theater, I looked up at a poster advertising the play. The ad’s type was dominated by a critic’s quote: “If Thornton Wilder had dropped acid, he might have ...

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Zachary Quinto and Robin Tunney star in the off-Broadway premiere of Noah Haidle's absurdist dark comedy, directed by Anne Kauffman. By Frank Scheck Your reaction to the new play by Noah Haidle ...