Shem Bitterman’s new play, The Stone Witch, is making it’s New York premiere at the Westside Theatre with an absolutely gorgeous production. Which may be better than the play. It’s not that the play is bad. It’s not, it’s charming. It’s just that the collaboration between Yael Pardess, who designed the set and did the drawings for Projection Designer Brad Peterson, Lighting Designer Betsy... Read more


"The Wonder Years" star Dan Lauria returns to the New York stage to lead the cast of the off-Broadway premiere of The Stone Witch by Shem Bitterman.
The world premiere of the new play was staged in 2016 at The Berkshire Theatre Group, in association with Darlene Kaplan Entertainment and Brierpatch Productions.
Performances are held upstairs at the Westside Theatre.
(Photos by Russ Rowland)
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Extraordinary art must be tamed. Simon Grindberg is the world’s most illustrious children’s book writer and illustrator —but his next masterpiece is a decade overdue. Peter Chandler is a starving artist with unparalleled potential—but he doesn’t yet know his own value. The two men are thrown together by Clair Forlorni, an ambitious editor who hopes Peter’s youthful exuberance can unleash Simon’s aging genius for one final story. But creativity comes at a cost. The Stone Witch is a wondrous, hopeful and heartbreaking new play where imagination runs wild.