FUN HOME (Arden Theatre): LOL misery
The Bechdel family has a funeral home (dubbed Fun Home by the kids) and also a not-fun family home.
HOPE AND GRAVITY (1812 Productions): “Even the lightest things come crashing back down to earth.”
There are many good comedies out there, but not many where the weight of tragedy crests and wanes beneath the laughter.
SING THE BODY ELECTRIC (Theatre Exile): Electricity sparks and glows brightly, then sputters
Is there more still left in the playwright’s head that didn’t make it to the stage?
THE PRODUCERS (Bristol Riverside): Bialystock & Bloom, mini-Madoffs of the theater world
Mel Brooks’s THE PRODUCERS has gone from Screen Comedy to Musical Comedy to Screen Musical Comedy and back to the stage again.
COPENHAGEN (Lantern): Observable quantities
I suspect that among the reasons COPENHAGEN has been so successful is that it invites us to believe that we are smarter than we actually are
BASKERVILLE: A SHERLOCK HOLMES MYSTERY (Walnut Street): Ken Ludwig’s version turns the story on its head
An ancestral manor, a family curse, a fiend: Ken Ludwig’s version turns this Sherlock Holmes story on its head.
MY FAIR LADY (Quintessence): A splendid holiday gift
A jubilant mix of beautiful music and songs, dancing, magic, social politics… and elocution
TOUCHTONES (Arden): This must be a bad connection
Naughty and nice collide in TOUCHTONES, a musical fantasy in world premiere at the Arden.
BUT NEXT NOT THIS (Hella Fresh Theater & Hum’n’bards): A bi-coastal experiment
A great idea for an experiment, but I’m not convinced that the reality plays out as well as the concept.
ALCHEMIST (Chris Davis & Mary Tuomanen): 2017 Fringe review
A friend “knows who you are and forgives you for it.”
LIBERTY CITY RADIO THEATRE (Bill Arrowood & Liberty City Radio Theatre): 2017 Fringe review
Old style ‘On’ and ‘Applause’ signs light up. The show starts.
THE RESISTIBLE RISE OF ARTURO UI (DBaD Productions): 2017 Fringe review
The Fringe is an excellent place for companies to mount political protest plays
A BILLION NIGHTS ON EARTH (Thaddeus Phillips and Steven Dufala): 2017 Fringe review
It looks like a father’s love went into the making of this big adventure, Phillips’s warmest work yet.
FISHTOWN: A Hipster Noir (Tribe of Fools): 2017 Fringe review
This is what you’re looking for. This is Fringe. Tribe of Fools delivers the goods… again.
THE OXFORD IMPS (Improvisers from Oxford): Edinburgh Fringe 2017
What Fringe Festival? The Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
EDISON (Static Assembly): Edinburgh Fringe 2017
What Fringe Festival? The Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
FREE FRINGE: A round up of stand up at the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe
What Fringe Festival? The Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
BLACKCATFISHMUSKETEER (Malaprop Theatre, Dublin): Edinburgh Fringe 2017
What Fringe Festival? The Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
