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In Passage Theatre Company’s world-premiere production, the conditions needed for a post-modern couple to create life are no longer as limited as they once were
View More THE GOLDILOCKS ZONE (Passage): A cosmic consideration of post-modern parenthood
Thaddeus Phillips plays Barry Seal, a real-life, infamous drug smuggler-turned-DEA-informant who eventually gained the ire of both smugglers and government agents.
View More . . . BARRY SEAL (Thaddeus Phillips/FringeArts): Smile and a wink
Henrik Ibsen’s classic gets a beautiful production at Bristol Riverside Theatre.
View More AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE (BRT): Pollution and politics
Conceived with a book by Ray Roderick and Michael Berkeley, I LOVE A PIANO is a valentine to Irving Berlin music through the ages
View More I LOVE A PIANO (Walnut): A Berlin marathon
The experimental work is a three-part meditation on the life and death of animals under the domination of the human gaze.
View More LET THE DOG SEE THE RABBIT (Lightning Rod Special): A conceptual look at humans looking at animals
Sebastian describes SHOWBIZ as “part theater, part concert special, part social commentary extravaganza.”
View More There’s No Bizness like SHOWBIZ: Sebastian has a new show
The fanciful adventures of knight errant Don Quixote and loyal his sidekick Sancho Panza are refreshingly revived.
View More DON QUIXOTE (Hedgerow): Cervantes’ knight errant rides anew
Azuka Theatre found a theatrical goldmine in the world of high school misfits with its 2012 production of J.C. Lee’s Pookie Goes Grenading, and finds rich…
View More SPEECH AND DEBATE (Azuka): 60-second review
Michael Frayn’s enormously popular 1980s play is a zany farce about doors and sardines, relationships, and mistakes.
View More NOISES OFF (Curio): Utter nonsense, superbly structured and out of control
The play, like its characters, exists in a dream-world
View More THE GATHERING OF THE MOTHER MOTH PEOPLES (Olivia Jorgensen): Blessed, blessed Beltane
An admirable attempt to address the contemporary and timely tragedy of urban violence that doesn’t quite manage to ring true.
View More BROWNSVILLE SONG (B-SIDE FOR TRAY) (PTC/Long Wharf): Telling an urban tragedy
Brat Productions’ PLANT ME HERE presents a saccharine dream of ruin and rebirth.
View More PLANT ME HERE (Brat): Sound and fury
In GOD OF CARNAGE, French playwright Yasmina Reza’s 90-minute award-winning black comedy, it doesn’t take long to demonstrate the old adage that the apple doesn’t…
View More GOD OF CARNAGE (Ritz): Funny fissures in the façade of civilization
Every actor has experienced theater critics who got things a little wrong. Here’s their chance to peel their own onion.
View More That’s Just Like Your Opinion, Man: RAW ONION REVIVAL (IRC) actors become their own critics
Though entertaining as a comedy, BILOXI BLUES contains an important message about fighting “the good war” abroad, while many struggles against injustice remain on the home front.
View More BILOXI BLUES (People’s Light): Coming of age in WWII
As always with an Alexander Burns production, imagery is rife, props are creative, and jokes come as much from sight gags as from dialogue.
View More THE THREE MUSKETEERS (Quintessence): Swordplay and horseplay combine in a breezy adaptation
This chaotic opus reaches Monty Python levels of absurdity one would never associate with Shakespeare’s own overlooked tragedy reject.
View More CORIOLANUS (SHAKESPEARE ROULETTE) (Reject): Not your average tragedy
The Incredibly Dangerous Astonishing Lucrative and Potentially TRUE Adventures of Barry Seal comes to FringeArts May 14–16, 2015. We interview creator Thaddeus Phillips.
View More Thaddeus Phillips Brings the Drug Trade to FringeArts: Interview with the creative mind behind Lucidity Suitcase Intercontinental
It’s an old show biz maxim, and true, that an adult cannot expect full attention if he or she is working on stage with a dog or a child.
View More BECAUSE OF WINN-DIXIE (DTC): A child and her dog steal a charming musical
Reject Theatre Project launches this week with an inventive take on Shakespeare’s CORIOLANUS courtesy of Lesley Berkowitz.
View More Reject Shakespeare: New theater company presents an impromptu CORIOLANUS with a drinking game