Skylight Theatre Hosts a Different View of the Hero, Achilles
It isn’t often that a play as outwardly straight forward as this one could be thought about as an ongoing daytime TV series, but my immediate impulse when I watched Achilles […]
Klein. Photo by Jeff Lorch
Reel to Reel Unspools the Interiority of a Marriage
Revelations about marriage have been the grist for drama since the door slammed in Ibsen’s A Doll’s House. But none have revealed quite the same journey as John Kolvenbach’s innovative approach, with […]
Ybarra, Melville. Photo by Mike Ditz.
Griffith Park Goes to the Devil with Independent Shakespeare Company’s Dr. Faustus
Melissa Chalsma, director of this rendition of Christopher Marlowe’s Dr. Faustus, has a lot of fun taking an Elizabethan-era play that is basically a debate between good and evil (represented by […]
Van Helsdingen, Mullen. Photo by Gabe Tejeda-Benitez.
The Hits Just Keep on Coming at Theatre 40 with A Jukebox for the Algonquin!
Theatre Forty hits another home run with a sure-fire dramady set in a senior living facility whose residents have nicknamed their common room “The Algonquin” for reasons that become clear […]
Theatrical Secrets Revealed in Behind the Curtain at Two Roads Theatre
If you’re a committed theatre goer, or even if you’re not, you probably have a vague idea of what it takes to put on a play. Now, Art Shulman rips the […]
Ross, Cowan Stokan, Rivers and Ensemble. Photo by Ian Flanders.
Theatricum Strikes Again with Quintessential Strife
You know that old adage, “The more things change, the more they stay the same”? Theatricum Botanicum’s production of John Galsworthy’s Strife demonstrates how easy it is to fall back on old patterns. Without […]