Best-selling author and Tony-winning performer Eve Ensler is back onstage with an adaptation of her acclaimed 2013 memoir, In the Body of the World, now in performances at Manhattan Theatre Club’s New York City Center – Stage I.
The monologue play, written and performed by Ensler (The Vagina Monologues), details her experiences working with women in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo and being diagnosed with uterine cancer.
In the Body of the World is directed by Tony-winning director Diane Paulus, who helmed the world premiere at American Repertory Theater.
Read reviews for the Off-Broadway premiere of the show:
Entertainment Weekly (Allison Adato)
The Hollywood Reporter (Frank Scheck)
NY Daily News (Joe Dziemianowicz)
The New York Times (Jesse Green)
Time Out New York (Helen Shaw)
Playbill will continue to update with reviews as they are published.
The Off-Broadway engagement of In the Body of the World, which officially opened February 6, is a co-production between A.R.T and MTC. Performances began January 16.
