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Review: Eclectic Full Contact Theatre’s Refracted Light Tackles Mental Health in Family Drama

Jamie Lee as Penny Harris and Charles Schoenherr as Dr Daker. Photo Credit: Paul Chakrin

“Whenever I walk down a street, I find myself fascinated by the glow of windows and the curtains drawn across them, knowing that behind each one lives a world of […]

  • Lauren Katz
  • September 9, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: Buddha’s Birthday by Lucid Theater Focuses on One Character—Plus That Raccoon

    Buddha’s Birthday by Lucid Theater is a little slip of a play, a story of family relationships and conflicts—husband/wife, mother/daughter, aunt/niece. One character in each of those pairs is played […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • August 9, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: A Shadow Bright and Burning by Black Button Eyes Productions Has Some Bright Spots in a Sorcery Story Rehash

    I once attended a church that used the Harry Potter stories as a means of telling the hero’s journey in spiritual terms. The minister once came out dressed as a […]

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • August 27, 2024
    • Stages , Theater

    Review: AstonRep Mounts an Appropriately Bleak Production of Sam Shepard’s Buried Child

    There’s nothing more satisfying than a sharply directed and well-acted production of a Sam Shepard play. Shepard’s America is middle America at its seamy, seedy worst with family secrets, lies […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • October 25, 2022
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