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GET TICKETS NOW! for Inclination at Chain Theatre Winter One-Act Festival '25
Chain Theatre. 312 West 36th Street. 3rd Floor NYC
2/20/25 at 8:30 pm. 2/23 at 2 pm, 3/1 at 2 pm
Block 7
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https://www.chaintheatre.org/winter-one-act-festival-2025
Kate & Don at Chain Theatre Festival, Review
Layover at Reagan National
Review of Chain Theatre production
By John R. Ziegler and Leah Richards
Kate Katcher wrote, directs, and performs in the impactful Layover at Reagan National, in which she is wonderful as one half of a married couple enduring a flight delay at the titular, and perhaps symbolically chosen, airport. The couple are flying in connection with the husband’s (Don Striano, also excellent) career as a successful playwright, and his wife, a writer herself, is accompanying him and his deteriorating vision. The blurriness devouring anything close to him acts as an example of losing things that we experience as givens, as fundamental parts of ourselves, that resonates with the play’s climax. Before that climax, which is driven by chance on the one hand and cultural forces on the other, the comfortable tangents and emotional ebbs and flows of the couple’s conversation artfully establish a lived-in relationship with a foundation of caring partnership underlying frictions. The show, which includes a jab at how the slurry of news content helps normalize preventable tragedy, movingly highlights the ever-present contingency that haunts human lives; how one object, one person, one moment, can have an incalculable effect.
Winner- Man on the Moon
Thrilled to have directed Jim Gordon's "Man on the Moon", the TheatreWorks One-Act Festival Winner with Molly Garbe Brown and Matt McQuail and second-place winner at Soop to Nuts Festival.
"36" The Novel, coming in July, 2026
Having adapted my award winning yet unproduced play to a novel, I am delighted to announce its publication by Vine Leaves Press. Due out on July 6th, 2026! Stay tuned for details.
FLASH: A Fox in the Henhouse is International Theatre Script Finalist!
International Theatre Script Competition:
A Fox in the Henhouse is so well written with hilarious sarcastic humor that had us not being able to put this play down as tears ran down from our face from laughing. We wanted to cast it and see it put up.
Peter Filichia of Broadway Radio said Fox is "... destined to be produced from sea to shining Seattle. The story of two sisters who find that sisterly love is just as valuable as romantic love may not sound as if it would offer belly laugh after titanic belly laugh, but Kate Katcher's witty and warm script will have theatergoers doing just that. In between, they'll also be wiping occasional emotional tears from their eyes. Here's the quintessential audience pleaser that will still be performed when Justin Bieber files for Social Security. Don't miss the chance to partake of its wonders."
Pictured: Eileen Lawless, Barbara Hentschel and Don Striano