and Outstanding Lighting Design for a Play (Drama Desk Awards) for Dr. Ride's American Beach House.

(The minimal set is by Frank J Oliva, lighting by Oona Curley.) “A Knock on the Roof” wants to draw us close and deepen our understanding. I’m not sure it succeeds at that. But we do leave ...

Whenever a bomb drops, Oona Curley’s lighting dims on Frank J Oliva’s nearly bare set — composed of a single chair and a brick wall — and we hear tense, ticking music as Ms. Ibraheem begins to run in ...