Stages, Theater

Review: In Black Button Eyes’ Ghost Quartet, Comedy and Tragedy Span Four Centuries

Black Button Eyes Productions staged my favorite musical of the year, Evil Dead the Musical, and when I saw Ghost Quartet and its description I jumped at the opportunity to see it. I […]

James Brod /
Comedy, Stages, Theater

Review: Evil Dead the Musical Is a Bloody Bucket of Laughs

The Evil Dead series is one that I hold dear to my heart, and I was excited, and worried, to see it in musical form. Evil Dead, especially the later […]

James Brod /
Stages, Theater

Nightmares and Nightcaps at Black Button Eyes: Short Stories Become Funny, Spooky Theatrics

I read a lot of short stories, of varied styles and themes. I like the stories of George Saunders, Shirley Jackson, Philip K. Dick and Hilary Mantel, among others. But […]

Nancy S Bishop /
Stages, Theater

Black Button Eyes Productions’ Shockheaded Peter Has More Style Than Substance

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Presented at the Athenaeum Theatre by Black Button Eyes Productions, Shockheaded Peter presents a series of gruesome vignettes adapted from a German book entitled The Struwwelpeter, written in 1845 by […]

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