Review: The Quest for Home by Desperate Immigrants Is the Theme of Routes at Remy Bumppo
Home is where the heart is, the proverb says—and home is the heart of the story in Routes, a British…
Review: Remy Bumppo’s Radio Play—Artist Descending a Staircase—Is a Tom Stoppard Delight
Modern art, death and trippy art talk, as only Tom Stoppard can write it. That’s the best reason to listen…
Review: Females Seek Agency in Remy Bumppo’s Top Girls
Note: Top Girls was reviewed by Karin McKie and Kim Campbell on Women’s March weekend. Caryl Churchill wrote Top Girls…
Review: Remy Bumppo’s Beautiful Production of Howards End Tells Three Family Stories
Howards End, the stunning new production by Remy Bumppo Theatre, weaves together strands of three families. The wealthy and elite…
Review: Remy Bumppo’s Bloomsday Celebrates the Past and Future, Complete with Pints of Regret
It’s early June in Dublin—almost Bloomsday. The time is today and 35 years ago. But whatever year it is, Bloomsday,…
Review: Remy Bumppo’s The Father Tricks With Our Minds in Story of Aging, Memory and Perception
The Father by French playwright Florian Zeller is a play about aging and dementia. But it’s not your typical touching…
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…
Review: Remy Bumppo’s Poetic Frankenstein Asks How a Lonely Creature Becomes a Monster
Frankenstein opens with an exquisitely staged birthing scene. The Creature is shrouded in a sheer fabric sac, a metaphoric womb. He…
