THE RESISTABLE RISE OF ARTURO UI (Lantern): 60-second review
A quick, masterful production that would make Brecht proud.
Nick Embree
HAPGOOD (Lantern): Rising to the challenge of a gleefully complicated spy story
Hapgood is not just a spy story, it’s also a physics story
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
BROKEN STONES (InterAct): Searching through the meta rubble
What better theatrical vehicle for cynicism than “meta”: how many ways can the playwright fool an audience?
GROUNDED (InterAct): The killing screens
GROUNDED is a tale for our times: war is most hellish when it resembles office life, reality is most profound rendered in pixels.
UNCANNY VALLEY (InterAct): What makes us human?
Post-modern technology collides with human ethics in InterAct Theatre Company’s revolving world-premiere production of playwright-in-residence Thomas Gibbons’ UNCANNY VALLEY.
HEROES (Lantern): Quieter guns of August
It’s 1959. Two veterans of the Great War sit in silence. HENRI: I love the month of August GUSTAVE: I knew it couldn’t last, the world was at peace, and…
