Annie Baker’s plays present characters who, if not miserable, are not far off, in circumstances to which they would mostly rather not be confined, but are. For another “not,” one might add that her ...

Julianne Nicholson and Zoe Ziegler in "Janet Planet." In Janet Planet, silence is everything. Playwright Annie Baker's directorial debut thrives in the stretches of time between words, entire scenes ...

Julianne Nicholson and Zoe Ziegler, in JANET PLANET. Courtesy of A24 In JANET PLANET, Julianne Nicholson plays Janet, the warming, single mother “sun” around which her daughter, 11-year-old Lacy (Zoe ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Does anybody have a rocket ship they can lend me? When I started doing my research after watching Janet Planet and saw that it was written and directed by a playwright, I said, ...