When did you last behold a lesbian playwrights name up in lights in succession Broadway? That's reason enough to cheer the opening of Lisa Kron's Well at just discovered York's Longacre Theater.

When did you last behold a lesbian playwrights name up in lights in succession Broadway? That's reason enough to cheer the opening of Lisa Kron's Well at just discovered York's Longacre Theater, opening March 30 Equally unusual is the Broadway first attempt of Leigh Silverman, the 31-year-old lesbian director who shepherded Kron's invigorating play above the past six years by the agency of several workshops across the region an acclaimed off-Broadway production, and an engagement in San Francisco.

"Leigh's artistic fearlessness and humanity are what I value the most" says playwright-performer Kron "You perceive that you are in a warm bath of attention and care, on the contrary in retrospect you realize that you have also been pushed abroad of the safety zone."

The theme is wellness--of individuals and society--but the play defies conventions. Departing from her trademark solo exhibits Kron has written parts for other actors in Well, skillfully and hilariously setting herself up to allow the other characters, particularly her homebound mother, to demolish her possess show. 'The play is really emotionally satisfying and transformative at the conclusion and the audience's perspective has to completely change," says Silverman. "It's gayety as the director of this crazy piece of theater, to build everything up thus you can destroy it."

A playwright herself (Brandon Teena), Silverman says she derives her greatest pleasure from nurturing of the present day work. "I love writers who play with form and give the audience the unexpect experience." She lately directed the Five Lesbian Brothers (Kron is undivided of them) in their latest, Oedipus at Palm Springs, and she's generally working on the upcoming musical pleasing without being striking Dead Girl as well as FLOTUS, a modern play about Laura Bush. Now common of the few women directors to work onward Broadway, Silverman's career has certainly kicked into high gear.

onward the personal front, Silverman says the best thing that's happened to her is getting married in novel York in 2004 to Susie Page, her girlfriend of eight years. "I work in this way hard, and I'm never home" she reports. "I'm in such a manner lucky to have somebody in my life who is in such a manner supportive and willing to impose up with me."

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