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    Rieger, Uribes, Liguori. Photo by Jenny Graham.

    Are Three Tables Enough?

    Leigh Kennicott 14 May
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    I’ve been musing about Murray Mednick’s new play since I saw it. It is less a narrative and more of a meditation on holocausts, whether present or future, that reflects […]

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    Hansen, Coty, Hooks. Photo by Jermaine Alexander.

    Where Do You Stand? The Robey Theatre Presents A Heated Discussion

    Leigh Kennicott 25 April
    3 minutes

    The Robey Theatre, headed by Ben Guillory, comes roaring back after the Covid-induced layover, with a meticulously researched and workshopped performance piece that tackles the biggest questions of our current […]

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    Rogers, Wolff. Photo by Elizabeth Kimbsll.

    The Road Presents an Impeccable Production of Bright Half Live

    Leigh Kennicott 23 April
    3 minutes

    Perhaps you will not wonder, as I did, what the half-part of “Bright Half Life” meant in the context of Tanya Barfield’s play.  Suffice it to say, I just had to […]

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    Leyva, Mack. Photo by Jenny Graham.

    Apartment Living

    Leigh Kennicott 5 April
    2 minutes

    While it is not messy by any means, Apartment Living, written by Boni B. Alvarez and produced at Skylight Theatre in conjunction with Playwrights Arena, is brilliant — yet confusing.  The play is […]

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    Goodman, Doud, Stewart, Grimes. Photo by Cooper Bates.

    Hooded or Being Black for Dummies

    Leigh Kennicott 5 April
    2 minutes

    For me, Hooded or Being Black for Dummies was the most challenging play I’ve seen recently.  As directed by Ahmed Best and written by Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm for the Echo Theatre Company, the production has […]

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    Cantrell, Crothers, Veremis. Photo by Frank Ishman

    We’ve Come a Long Way, Baby!

    Leigh Kennicott 28 March
    4 minutes

    My reception of Sarah Ruhl’s In The Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) is surely influenced by having blundered into the wrong theatre. Have you heard that theatre is dead?  You will not […]

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    The Hall of Final Ruin: What a Kick-off for Ophelia’s Jump

    Leigh Kennicott 20 March
    3 minutes

    Thank goodness, I took a course in Southwestern Mystery and Myth in graduate school, or I would have no idea what was going on in Kelly McBurnette-Andronicos’ The Hall of Final […]

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    Puppeteer Curtin, Gertrude the Goose, Cox. Photo by Cooper Bates.

    The 24th Street Theatre is Back with Rapunzel Alone

    Leigh Kennicott 13 March
    3 minutes

    Almost everyone remembers the nursery rhyme, “Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair.”  But what would happen if Rapunzel had to sheer off her braids because she had head lice? So begins […]

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    Foreground Dixon. Rear: Uribes, Su, Perkins, Arauz, Ascensio. Photo by Jenny Graham.

    It’s Enough to Make a Person Run for Office

    Leigh Kennicott 27 February
    3 minutes

    After one of the opening performances of Detained at the Fountain Theatre last week, one of the audience members turned to her friend and said, “All they had to do was follow […]

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    Hicks, Everts. Photo by Jenny Graham.

    Singing Revolution Has a Lesson for Us Today

    Leigh Kennicott 17 February
    3 minutes

    How fitting that Singing Revolution: the Musical, onstage at the Broadwater in Hollywood, appears as the world holds its collective breath while Vladimir Putin plays cat and mouse with Ukraine, once part […]

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