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Review: First Floor Theater’s Work Hard Have Fun Make History Gets Lost in Its Own Experimentalism

Review written by Emily Werner. First Floor Theater’s new production of reid tang’s dark comedy Work Hard Have Fun Make History struggles to create a clear connection between the characters […]

  • Emily Werner
  • May 20, 2026
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: Hell in a Handbag’s The Golden Girls: The Cheese Pyramid Parodies a Scam From Rose’s Home Town of St. Olaf, Minnesota

    By now, the four women of The Golden Girls have become woven into the fabric of American culture. Dorothy (David Cerda), Blanche (Grant Drager), Sophia (Kelly Bolton), and Rose (Ed […]

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • May 19, 2026
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: In A Red Orchid’s The Targeted, People Believe Mind-Control Chips Are Implanted in Their Bodies

    The setting is a church summer camp, now the site of the First Annual Solidarity and Truth Conference. Before the play begins, voices and visual projections describe the lives of T.I.s […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • May 19, 2026
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: Le Bal at Trap Door Theatre Portrays an American Century with Music, Dance and No Dialogue

    Not a word is spoken. The 90-minute performance by Trap Door Theatre is staged with music, recorded song and occasional dialog, but the seven actors say nothing. The production is […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • May 16, 2026
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: Eclectic’s The Red Lion Finds Strength in Performance, Not Pace

    Review by Emily Werner. Patrick Marber’s The Red Lion is the closing performance of Eclectic Full Contact Theatre’s 14th season. Premiering at the National Theatre in London in June 2015, […]

  • Emily Werner
  • May 6, 2026
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: Spectacle and Story Collide in Lifeline’s Ambitious Rock Musical Loki—The End of the World Tour

    Review by Emily Werner. Lifeline Theatre concludes its 43rd season with the world premiere of the rock musical Loki—The End of the World Tour. With Loki, director Heather Currie leans […]

  • Emily Werner
  • May 4, 2026
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: See moonwatchers by Lazy Susan Theatre for Some Intergalactic Space Fun

    moonwatchers, now being staged by Lazy Susan Theatre, might be just what you need if you are feeling depressed and angry about the state of the nation and the world. […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • May 2, 2026
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: The Dover Road by Ghostlight Ensemble Tells the Story of a Benefactor With an Odd Happiness Mission

    The Dover Road is a vintage play, a comedy of manners with a twist. Ghostlight Ensemble is staging the 1921 A.A. Milne script, directed by Holly Robison, in an interesting […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • April 21, 2026
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: Impostors Theatre’s Static-Head Fails in Its Critique of Art and Technology

    Static-Head, the new science fiction play by Impostors Theatre Co., lectures about the cost of artificial intelligence: it strips creativity, it combines old ideas without contributing anything new. Yet the […]

  • Adam Kaz
  • April 20, 2026
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: Eos Theatre Stages The Trojan Women, a Powerful Play About How Women Suffer in Wartime

    The Trojan Women is a play about yesterday that speaks to today. It’s a powerful story about how women suffer in wartime, a commentary on the costs of war and […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • April 6, 2026
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: The Ally at Theater Wit Relies Too Much on Volume, Rather Than Drama

    The Ally, a play now on stage at Theater Wit, is a diatribe more than a drama. The script by Itamar Moses (book for The Band’s Visit) puts a university […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • March 31, 2026
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: Trap Door Theatre’s The Cuttlefish, or the Hyrcanian Worldview Will Test Many but Rewards Everyone

    After reading the play The Cuttlefish, or the Hyrcanian Worldview, about an artist driven to despair due to censorship, by the early 20th century Polish avant-garde writer Stanislaw I. Witkiewicz, […]

  • Adam Kaz
  • March 24, 2026
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