Stages, Theater

Review: Northlight Theatre Brings Thrilling Murder Mystery to the Holiday Season with Dial M for Murder

Money, fear, jealousy, revenge, and protecting someone you love. These are the five top motives for murder, according to Maxine Hadley (Elizabeth Laidlaw), a murder mystery writer who is about […]

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Stages, Theater

Review: Steep Theatre’s The Writer Makes a Feminist Assault on Theater and Its Patriarchy

The Writer, Steep Theatre’s new play by English playwright Ella Hickson, is an assault on theater and on the patriarchy. It’s a much-deserved feminist assault. Whether it’s good theater or […]

Nancy S Bishop /
Stages, Theater

Review: Art and Politics at War in Chagall in School by Grippo Stage Company

Art is enmeshed in the politics of the Russian revolution in James Sherman’s new play, Chagall in School, now being staged by Grippo Stage Company at Theater Wit. Georgette Verdin […]

Nancy S Bishop /
Stages, Theater

Review: Out of Love at Interrobang Theatre Shines a Light on Female Friendship    

Out of Love by English playwright Elinor Cook is unique in its focus—not on hetero or same-sex love—but on intense female friendship. The Interrobang Theatre’s U.S. premiere production portrays the […]

Nancy S Bishop /
Stages, Theater

Review:  In Utility, a Working-Class Woman Holds Her Family and Herself Together

Guest author review by Katie Priest Reading Interrobang Theatre Project’s description of its new play, Utility by Emily Schwend, I was unsure whether I would be seeing a play with a […]

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