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How much real life can fit into fifteen minutes? Love and Foreclosure explores the golden child, the black sheep, family expectations and the complicated price of choosing your own path—an…
The Last Stop manages to make you laugh, cry and contemplate the meaning of life in just 40 minutes. A beautifully layered story about grief, forgiveness and the moments we allow to define u…
Sukkot uses one of Judaism’s most joyful holidays as the backdrop for a complicated family reckoning filled with grief, secrets and old wounds. With an exceptional cast and beautiful produ…
ISLA is a bilingual miracle of shadow puppetry, live guitar, and three-part harmony — the true story of three sisters who fled Cuba on the 1969 Freedom Flights, told through their own reco…
By Holli Harms It was, from beginning to end, mesmerizing, transforming, and gorgeous, at 54 Below! Ryan James Monroe and his rockin’ band, including back up vocalists Stephanie Ainsworth …
...the play then sings for the next almost three and a half hours across the stage. For both Shakespeare aficionados and inductees alike, the audience oohs and aahs along with the script, …
It was 1996 the first time that Wendy Wasserstein’s play An American Daughter was performed.
At that time Proclamation 7017—Women's Equality Day was proclaimed. It was a time when wom…
Subtitled, “She Built the Bridge,” director, lyricist and book-writer, Ray Roderick, ostensibly sets out to tell the story of Emily Roebling, a fascinating real historical figure who pla…
Masticate at The Players Theatre written by Madison Fargo and directed by Kristen Kelso, gives us a view of the back of house, beyond and behind the familiar: “your table’s ready - right…
Once In a Lifetime, Again” is that rare festival discovery worth crossing town for: a tender, funny, rock-and-roll-hearted musical about grief, therapy, and the terrifying comedy of dating…
Safi is a performer who has created a show that lives, breathes, and thrives in and among its diversions. This show does not take a particularly linear path. It lets “the outside world” …
“I feel like I’m in my living room with a bunch of friends,” Hancock exclaimed, taking a seat at his keyboard.
The crowd laughed and clapped, and I sat back in delight, realizing how m…
First off - the way you can tell that Every Brilliant Thing is a British production is by the title. If this were an American play it would be "Every GOOD Thing," or "Every GREAT thing." �…
HERE IS OUR JUNE REVIEW By Stanford Friedman What does a production that runs nearly three and a half hours need to succeed? In the case of Jonathan Spector’s Birthright, the latest daring…
Four suicides occurred at The Vessel from 2020 to 2021. Across three scenes, George’s play weaves itself throughout this fatal period, time-jumping between casualties, its characters traum…
Mystery and challenges are eked out. The characters drop just enough information to keep us paying attention. Too bad that we had to wait until the final-final before we were allowed to …
"Disruption" is a welcome addition to the "Speak Truth To Power" division of theatre. Stein has taken a brave step to outline what is going on in this country and in the worlds of Metta, M…
Piao Niu is an immensely talented young performer who commands the stage. She brought spirit and vivacity to the pieces she performed live, especially the infectious Tea Picking song.
The po…
By Tulis McCall Hungry Women by Melissa Maney is a slow production. This is due to a couple of elements. First of all the sheer weight of the ideas that stretch over two centuries. The…
After mastering the meshing of comedy and urgency in Slater's past productions, he brings this skill to the storefront as he serves as an adopted now-adult-orphan, Seymour, to Plant Shop Own…
Byt Tulis McCall Close but no cigar. Don’t worry – I am certain to be in the minority on this one. Written by Bubba Weiler (author of Well, I’ll Let You Go) The Saviors, at the Atl…
Clothed in a giant, sparkly, purple gown (costumes by Kelsey Randall), Cat Cohen herself brings a charismatic, main-character energy, taking the piece quite far with her unique style of stan…
There is a story here, but I believe the writing needs to be ruthless. Let's dig deep into that loneliness all together until we feel it in our guts.
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Theater is an art form of ideas. Ideas that are transformed to character’s actions and reactions. Ideas that even with plays that are absurdist in form build into a satisfying journey. Sat…
For now, How to Put Down the Weight of Your Past is worth seeing for the nerve of it, even if you leave still carrying some of the weight yourself.
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