Hand to God Playwright Pulls No Punches
Robert Askins livens up this Sunday's New York Times.
Michael Paulson, who covers theater for the New York Times, previously roamed the religion beat. Which makes him the perfect man for the job of profiling Hand to God playwright Robert Askins.
The subversive comedy, inspired in part by Askins’ experiences as a youth with a Texas church’s youth puppet ministry, is currently in previews at The Booth Theatre on Broadway. If the play is anything like a stroll through the neighborhood with its writer, it’s going to be a hit:
During a walk from the Cobble Hill coffee shop where he sometimes writes to the Park Slope restaurant where he tends bar, Askins quoted Nietzsche and Derrida, described himself as “deeply weird” and swore like, well, a satanic sock-puppet.
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