Review: Noel Coward’s Wit Retains Its Flavor in Updated Private Lives at Raven Theatre
Two newly wed couples arrive for their honeymoons at a swank resort hotel in France. Unbeknownst to both couples, the…
Review: Story Theatre is Fire Hot in Debut Production, Marie Antoinette and the Magical Negroes
Almost everything that is written about the times we live in uses words like troubled, divided, and unprecedented. Various adjectives…
Review: Raven Theatre Stages The Luckiest, a Play About Love and Family—With an Ironic Title
The Luckiest is the ironic title of a superb play by Melissa Ross, now on stage at Raven Theatre. It’s a…
Review: Griffin Theatre Company’s Solaris Makes (Human) Contact
Few 20th century works of art have inspired as many adaptations as Stanislaw Lem’s 1961 science fiction classic Solaris: three…
Review: Raven Theatre’s A Doll’s House Ends With That Satisfying Slammed Door
It’s the most famous slammed door in theater history. And it’s the most satisfying slammed door for a feminist. It’s…
Review: At Raven Theatre, Sundown, Yellow Moon Suffers From Pallid Script, Odd Staging
Sundown, Yellow Moon by Rachel Bonds is a family story about twin sisters from the big city who visit their…
Review: At Raven Theatre, Will Hank’s Bar Survive The Undeniable Sound of Right Now?
First of all, there’s the bar. Jeffrey D. Kmiec’s design of Hank’s Bar is a classic and so realistic you…
Review: Compass Theatre’s What We’re Up Against Shows 1992 Workplace Sexism Is Still Alive and Well
Playwright Theresa Rebeck is a master of dialogue and never hesitates to portray the bad manners of her contemporaries. Her…
2018 in Review: What We Liked on Stage
This isn’t a “best theater of 2018” list. We didn’t see everything. Most of our writers are freelancers, all with…
There’s Little Brotherly Love But Plenty of Poteen in The Lonesome West by AstonRep
The Lonesome West by Martin McDonagh is a story of two Irish brothers, locked in a codependent relationship of affection and…
Raven’s Suddenly Last Summer Tells Tennessee Williams’ Grisly Tale in a Garden
Playwright Tennessee Williams is a master of his craft. He is skilled at conjuring up a time or place and…
Two Great Playwrights on the Cusp of Their Careers: Philip Dawkins’ The Gentleman Caller at Raven Theatre
Tennessee Williams has been a local favorite for decades, ever since December 27, 1944, when Claudia Cassidy, the fearsome Chicago…
