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Review: Ironbound at Raven Theatre Paints a Portrait of an Immigrant Woman Fighting for Survival—Although Her New Country Doesn’t Care

Darja is an all-American woman. She may be a Polish immigrant, escaping the wars and politics of her native land. But she has all the problems of her born-in-the-USA sisters.  She […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • October 4, 2024
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater , Theater Festival

    Review: The Destinations Are the Path in the 2024 Go To New Play Fest at Theater Wit

    Annie Hogan and the Go To Ensemble. Photo by Julia Farrell Diefenbach.

    Flash theater is the theme of the 2024 Go To New Play Fest. Flash theater contains a plot, climax, and denouement similar to flash fiction but the impact is more […]

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • September 27, 2024
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: Surreality Abounds in Field of Flesh, a Weird But Muddled Interactive Performance

    Let’s simplify and take all the phrases critics could use for Field of Flesh—surrealist, experimental, avant garde, etc.—and put them under the umbrella term “weird theater.” You know, it’s the […]

  • Adam Kaz
  • September 10, 2024
    • Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: Oil Lamp Theater’s First Date—Millennial Romcom of Cringe and Courtship

    First Date, directed by Christina Ramirez, with a script by Austin Winsberg, slams us with all the goofs and hiccups of modern dating, which, without the bubbly, rambunctious soundtrack and […]

  • Anthony Neri
  • September 10, 2024
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: Gwydion Theatre’s This Is Our Youth Portrays a Slice of 1982 Manhattan Life…in Existential Crisis

    Kenneth Lonergan’s This Is Our Youth takes us back 40-some years … to an era when heavy-duty drugs were not only a path to pleasure (and sometimes pain) but the coinage of […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • September 5, 2024
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: City Lit Theater Completes Trilogy on the Golden Age of Comics With The House of Ideas

    City Lit Theater is finishing off local playwright Mark Pracht’s Four-Color Trilogy—about key moments in the history of comic book publishing—with The House of Ideas. Directed by former artistic director Terry McCabe, it’s […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • September 3, 2024
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: (Title of Show) at Pride Arts Will Get Creative Juices Flowing

    (Title of Show) is a based-on-real-life meta-comedy cataloging the painful and often random creative process. Written by Jeff Bowen and Hunter Bell in just three weeks, the musical tells the […]

  • Row Light
  • August 30, 2024
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: Redtwist Theatre’s The Normal Heart—Riveting Drama Still Beats Strong

    “Who cares if a bunch of faggots die?” Larry Kramer did. And, more than 40 years ago, that’s what caused him to write that caustic question in his remarkable play […]

  • Doug Mose
  • August 28, 2024
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: The Olde School Shakespeare Collective Presents The Taming of the Shrew (Brat-Tamer Version)

    A raucous night of theater just as the bard intended awaits audiences of the Olde School Shakespeare Collective’s production of The Taming of the Shrew. Hosted at My Buddy’s bar, […]

  • Row Light
  • August 26, 2024
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: In His Hands at First Floor Theater Explores Two Gay Men’s Very Different Experiences With the Church

    Review by Erin Ryan.  In His Hands, a 90-minute no intermission play, showcases two gay men and their very different experiences with two denominations of the Christian church: Lutheran and […]

  • Erin Ryan
  • August 11, 2024
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: In Wells and Welles, Lucid Theater Portrays the Day in 1940 When the Two Prodigies Meet

    Being considered a “boy genius” probably heightened Orson Welles’ substantial ego. In October 1940, his chutzpah enabled him to knock on the hotel room door of a man long recognized […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • July 23, 2024
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: At Pegasus Theatre, Dontrell, Who Kissed the Sea, Tells a Young Man’s Ancestral Dream Story

    Pegasus Theatre’s play, Dontell, Who Kissed the Sea, benefits from the poetic language of playwright Nathan Alan Davis and the production’s water theme. The work is directed by Ilesa Duncan, who […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • July 22, 2024
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