A play about sexual assault should be timely and a serious examination of a very serious problem. Instead this "Extremities" is more a joke than a probing look at this issue. Sexual assault against ...

Having just moved to the Sunset Playhouse from parts further west, The Actors Group begins its new season with William Mastrosimone's contemporary drama, "Extremities." Having just moved to the Sunset ...

One sure way to know a psychological thriller is succeeding is to have its patrons move back a row during intermission to get away from the intensity of the action. Another is to have stunned silence ...

In 1982, Extremities, by playwright William Mastrosimone, premiered at Westside Arts in New York starring Susan Sarandon, and later the play was adapted into a movie starring Farrah Fawcett, the final ...

A man enters the apartment of a young woman with the intention of raping her. A vicious attack ensues, ending with one of the parties gaining the upper hand. The scenario sounds like an episode of ...

In his play “Extremities,” playwright William Mastrosimone is asking a difficult question: Can a woman who was sexually assaulted but has no obvious injuries get a fair hearing in a court of law? His ...

At the Thomaston Art Center Stage, the Backyard Theater Ensemble’s production of William Mastrosimone’s Extremities is powerful and deeply affecting and provokes emotions and internal questions at ...

The play “Extremities” gets right to the point: It starts with an attempted rape. A stranger lets himself into an isolated farmhouse and attacks a woman who lives there. He throws her on the coffee ...