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Review: Theater Wit’s Mordant Dramedy Household Spirits Mixes Good Acting With a Convoluted Story

A ghost story requires that one suspends belief. Having grown up Catholic, I know all about suspending belief just from…

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • October 20, 2023
  • Stages, Theater

Review: Shattered Globe’s A View from the Bridge Simmers with Raw Emotion and Physicality

Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge is a mid-century American story, a tale that’s rimmed with classic notions of honor and…

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • September 14, 2023
  • Stages, Theater

Review: Tolstoy in a Cigar Factory—The Sensual Story of Anna in the Tropics by Remy Bumppo Theatre

Desire is a theme of Anna in the Tropics, the so-very-sensual play that won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for…

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • February 21, 2023
  • Stages, Theater

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…

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • November 5, 2022
  • 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…

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • September 9, 2022
  • Stages, Theater

Review: Steep Theatre’s Light Falls Unfolds a Panoramic Family Tragedy

Christine stands, spotlighted, center stage, and begins to tell her story. She’s blonde and fair, middle-aged, wearing a light blue…

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • July 24, 2022
  • Stages, Theater

Review: In a Storm of Silliness, Theater Wit’s Hurricane Diane Demands That We Care About Climate Change

Dionysus/Diane has messages for us. The messages we continue to ignore about the serious dangers that climate change portends for…

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • June 29, 2022
  • Stages, Theater

Review: Timeline Theatre Presents the Soul of a Nation on Display in The Chinese Lady

The Chinese Lady by Timeline Theatre Company
  • Kathy D. Hey
  • May 15, 2022
  • Stages, Theater

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…

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • April 29, 2022
  • Stages, Theater

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…

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • January 29, 2022
  • Comedy, Stages, Theater

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…

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • November 30, 2021
  • Feature, Stages, Theater, Virtual

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…

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • May 6, 2020
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