Review: Timeline Theatre Presents the Soul of a Nation on Display in The Chinese Lady
The Chinese Lady by Timeline Theatre Company
Review: A Taut Drama Unwinds Identity and Power in Rasheeda Speaking by Shattered Globe Theatre
Identity politics have become a big part of our everyday life. There is always a tussle over who can be…
Review: Timeline Theatre’s Relentless Unburies the Past to Confront the Future
Bakari and Ladymore are brilliant as sisters. Annelle is the dilettante who has had two marriages before finding Marcus. She…
Review: Theater Wit’s Bawdy and Hilarious Cindy Lou Turns the Table on PC Whoville in Who’s Holiday!
As kids growing up watching How the Grinch Stole Christmas, we were supposed to take comfort in the piety and…
Real or Virtual? We Need Live Theater but Theater on My Sofa Has a Future Too
Just before a play begins, the house lights dim and we take a collective breath of anticipation. That shared experience…
Review: Theater in the Time of COVID-19 with Teenage Dick
Britain’s National Theatre Live has been presenting recorded plays in movie theaters for the past few years so American audiences can watch…
Preview: Theater Wit to Livestream Video of Teenage Dick, as Richard III Goes to High School
Theater Wit in the Belmont theater district is keeping theater alive during the coronavirus shutdown. Live via a livestreamed video…
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: Shattered Globe’s Sheepdog Tells an All-Too-Familiar Story About Police Shootings
Alton Sterling. Laquan McDonald. Walter Scott. Michael Brown. Greg Gunn. Philando Castile. Some of those names might come to mind…
Review: The Gulf by About Face Theatre—Two Women Stuck in a Relationship—and a Fishing Boat
Two women on a fishing boat in the Alabama Delta. One casts and sometimes reels in…nothing. The other alternately suns,…
Review: Kentucky by Gift Theatre, an Homage to the Meaning of Home and Happiness
Kentucky is a richly drawn study of a family of characters who disagree and battle and are not quite sure…
Review: Despite Potential, Be Here Now Never Manages to Spark Inspiration
There’s a thoughtful core to Deborah Zoe Laufer’s Be Here Now, the story of a bitter, cynical woman afflicted with headaches…
