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 […]
Rieger, Uribes, Liguori. Photo by Jenny Graham.
Shelton, Roberts. Photo by Kayte Deioma.
A Doll’s House, Part 2
Lucas Hnath’s A Doll’s House, Part 2 is a cheeky concept that dares to take itself seriously enough to honor its famous predecessor, while creating a potent and entirely fresh theatrical experience. […]
Hansen, Coty, Hooks. Photo by Jermaine Alexander.
Where Do You Stand? The Robey Theatre Presents A Heated Discussion
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 […]
Rogers, Wolff. Photo by Elizabeth Kimbsll.
The Road Presents an Impeccable Production of Bright Half Live
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 […]
Butler. Photo by Adalena Kavanagh.
The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act
What constitutes good acting? Honesty? Authenticity? Realism? Charisma? The culture critic Isaac Butler explores these questions as well as past as prologue in his absorbing new book, The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act. In this […]
Goodman, Doud, Stewart, Grimes. Photo by Cooper Bates.
Hooded or Being Black for Dummies
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 […]
Cantrell, Crothers, Veremis. Photo by Frank Ishman
We’ve Come a Long Way, Baby!
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 […]
The Hall of Final Ruin: What a Kick-off for Ophelia’s Jump
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 […]
Puppeteer Curtin, Gertrude the Goose, Cox. Photo by Cooper Bates.
The 24th Street Theatre is Back with Rapunzel Alone
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 […]
Foreground Dixon. Rear: Uribes, Su, Perkins, Arauz, Ascensio. Photo by Jenny Graham.
It’s Enough to Make a Person Run for Office
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 […]