Sam Shepard can set up a world like nobody else
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SUNSET BABY (Azuka): A shining lead performance
Victoria Aaliyah Goins shines in a new play by a hot young playwright
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GEM OF THE OCEAN (Arden): A thing of beauty
GEM OF THE OCEAN is about a lot of things, including race, mysticism, and murder.
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OLIVER! (Quintessence): Eat gruel, get pickpocketed, and become an orphan
Stepping back to a Victorian workhouse with Quintessence Theatre Group.
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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?
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UNCLE VANYA (Quintessence): Tedious boring people
Good productions of Chekhov remind us of how vital his work still can be. Bad productions feed the narrative that his plays are dated, charmless, and inconsequential.
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RIZZO (PTC): A larger-than-life life onstage
An entertaining work about a compelling character, RIZZO displays pitfalls common to biographical drama.
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THE HAIRY APE (EgoPo): The cage of modern life
The challenge for EgoPo director Brenna Geffers was to make a play which must have been theatrically and politically radical a century ago relevant to a 21st-century audience.
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DEATH OF A SALESMAN (EgoPo): A Jewish take on the classic of American theater
DEATH OF A SALESMAN is often seen as a cultural comment on the American Dream, in EgoPo’s production it is a moving look at a man, his son, and their personal tragedies.
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Freezing one’s laughter mid-stream: THE MOST SPECTACULARLY LAMENTABLE TRIAL OF MIZ MARTHA WASHINGTON by James Ijames
“You will be broken and put back together again,” as one theatregoer commented on Facebook.
Given the explosive nature of this extraordinary play, I thought it important to talk to the playwright directly.
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THE CONVERT (Wilma/Woolly Mammoth): Shining a light on colonialism
Colonialism is Pygmalian writ large: one culture trying to civilize another. In Danai Gurira’s melodramatic THE CONVERT, a priggish preacher (Irungu Mutu) in 1895 Rhodesia (present-day…
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UNCLE TOM’S CABIN: AN UNFORTUNATE HISTORY (EgoPo): An unfortunate production
Rooted like wooden figurines in a nineteenth-century music box, the cast of EgoPo Classic Theater’s adaptation of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s UNCLE TOM’s CABIN stand in…
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60-second review: THE AMERICA PLAY (P&P)
Abraham Lincoln’s status as “the Great Emancipator” is a foundational myth of the American nation: a racially loaded narrative explored and satirized by Suzan-Lori Parks…
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