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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
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: A Case for the Existence of God at Steep Theatre Walks a Thin Line Between Hope and Despair

    Samuel D. Hunter has received a lot of attention in recent years, with Little Bear Ridge Road now receiving rave reviews at Steppenwolf, and the success of The Whale, a […]

  • Devony Hof
  • July 21, 2024
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: Otherworld Theatre Tackles Problems of Parentage and Demigodly Puberty in The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical 

    The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical made its Broadway debut in 2017 at the Lucille Lortel Theatre and went on a national tour in 2019. The show’s source material, […]

  • Row Light
  • July 14, 2024
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: Theatre L’Acadie’s The Swan Is a Surreal Concoction of Magical Realism and Mythology

    Theatre L’Acadie describes The Swan as a psychosexual fever dream. It is that, but there is more simmering beneath the murky surface. Playwright Elizabeth Egloff’s play takes place in Nebraska […]

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • July 13, 2024
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