I am endlessly fascinating by the scripts produced at Jackalope Theatre Company. Attend any production created by this open-hearted, full-throated organization, and you are likely to appreciate the sharp, heady […]
Disney’s The Magic Kingdom makes a perfect stand-in for the United States of America. Think about it. Happiness is its main goal, just as the pursuit of happiness is highlighted […]
“Neverland” at Prop Thtr reimagines the landscape of its fantasy world not as an eternal playland, but as an endless nightmare. Peter Pan and his crew of Lost kids are […]
The women of “Eclipsed” band together because they must. They are the “wives” of a commanding officer in a rebel camp during the Liberian civil war, and their survival depends […]
Grand Guignol is a tough style to pull off. Finding comedy in gore and gore in comedy takes a good sense of timing that applies to both laughs and chills. […]
You probably shouldn’t read this write-up of Lifeline’s Theatre’s “Neverwhere,” a new staging of their 2010 adaptation from Robert Kauzlaric, and I’ll tell you why. It’s not often a production […]
“You don’t know what I’m thinking.” So says Hasan (Terence Sims) to Lloyd (Sam Hubbard), and the tense silence they share in the wake of these words defines “Damascus,” a […]
Love is a rare bird. Maybe it’s as majestic as a hawk, or as utilitarian as a penguin, but it is always unique, and all metaphorical bird-watchers would do well […]
A film as flawed, but as arguably compelling as 1959’s “Imitation of Life” deserves a much more scathing and nuanced take-down than it ever inspired during its original run. It’s […]
The problems that the secretaries of Consolidated Industries faced in “9 to 5,” that 1980 blockbuster comedy now turned stage musical, are depressingly present in the workplace today. There is […]