Stages, Storefront, Theater

Review: Red Orchid’s In Quietness Presents a Puzzling Story About Marriage and Conservative Religion

In Quietness at A Red Orchid Theatre asks a lot of its audience, especially an urban liberal (most likely) audience. The play pits feminism against fundamentalist religion. It asks us to  believe […]

Nancy S Bishop /
Stages, Theater

Review: In Red Orchid’s Tense Last Hermanos, Two Brothers Are Desperate to Escape Across the Border

Last Hermanos by Exal Iraheta is a play about two brothers, set at some time now or in the recent past or near future, in an abandoned visitor center in a […]

Nancy S Bishop /
Stages, Theater

Review: The Moors at A Red Orchid Is a Wickedly Funny and Subversive Tale of Longing

Ah, gothic romance. It is always a dark and stormy night with sexually repressed spinsters sitting in the parlor of a creaky old mansion with ivy growing inside. The winds […]

Kathy D. Hey /
Magic, Stages

Review: Missed Connections Is Virtual Magic and Mind-Bending Tricks With a Few New Friends

Missed Connections, Jon Tai’s magic and mystery show, is a cozy hour of entertainment laced with his stories of, yes, actual missed connections. Tai and his co-creator, Alex Gruhin, offer […]

Nancy S Bishop /
Stages, Theater

Review: Absurd or Gross? Silliness Rules in Do You Feel Anger? at A Red Orchid Theatre

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In the last few months, I’ve seen a lot of plays about racism, sexual identity, immigration, crime, anger and angst. So it was a nice change of pace to see […]

Nancy S Bishop /
Stages, Theater

Review: Killing Game at Red Orchid Is Thrilling, Creative … and Bizarre

Eugene Ionesco’s Killing Game is a thrilling and creative piece of staging and performance at A Red Orchid Theatre. Directed by Dado and featuring 13 formidable actors playing 108 parts, Killing Game takes […]

Nancy S Bishop /
Stages, Theater

Review: Four Troubled Souls Try for Connection in Red Orchid’s Fulfillment Center

What does fulfillment mean? The playbill for A Red Orchid Theatre’s Fulfillment Center gives us more than a clue. Artistic director Kirsten Fitzgerald’s note lists definitions and describes what fulfillment means […]

Nancy S Bishop /
Review, Stages, Theater

Silence Is Worth a Thousand Words in Small Mouth Sounds at A Red Orchid Theatre

In the madness of our daily lives, we may wish that we could abandon our devices and spend a week meditating in the woods and getting high on nature. We […]

Nancy S Bishop /
Review, Stages, Theater

Victims of Duty Showcases the Shape of Michael Shannon

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Ubiquitous big-budget bad guy Michael Shannon returns to his roots, his theater company, his kind of town in the remount of A Red Orchid’s Victims of Duty. He reunites with […]

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