Are Three Tables Enough?
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]