Lit only by the actors' headlamps, this dark poetic drama about trapped coal miners grew on me – like a clammy mold.
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Theater Review: ‘Songs for the Fallen’ at the New York Musical Theatre Festival
Fizzy direction, brutally comic onstage energy, crafty songs and costumes, and overall technical sheen bring to pulse-pounding life this new musical version of Dumas's never-tired story of Marie Duplessis, the Lady of the Camellias.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC Off-Broadway): ‘I Know What Boys Want’ Explores Sex Tape Culture
A ripped-from-the-headlines story about a high school sex tape gone viral sets up a compelling premise but doesn't live up to its potential.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC Off-Broadway): ‘Threesome’ by Yussef El Guindi
'Threesome' begins as pure bedroom comedy, then slowly sours into muted seriousness, finally exploding into a cutting climax as secrets of sexual politics and terrible events of the recent past are revealed.
Read More »Theater Review (Off Broadway-NYC): ‘Threesome’ by Yussef El Guindi
When Leila and Rashid invite Doug over to be part of an intimate 'Threesome,' Doug is excited and feels he must accept to overcome a hurdle. But things are not what they seem for all three individuals. By the time their evening is over, the unexpected has happened and they will never be the same again.
Read More »Theater Review: ‘Orpheus and Eurydice’ by The Trip
This experimental treatment of the ancient myth takes in video, music, dance, and the online world as it plays with your expectations.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC Off-Broadway): ‘The Weir’ by Conor McPherson at the Irish Rep
There is nothing like a ghostly story to perk up one's mind and ears. And for three men and a woman in a remote pub in rural Ireland, the stories are real, even though in the light of dawn, ghosts fade away.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC Off-Broadway): ‘The Weir’ by Conor McPherson at the Irish Repertory Theatre
A the denizens of an Irish country pub chat and gossip, then go on to spin the supernatural tales that are the meat of the drama, a vivid outside world of time and space unfolds – and a world beyond as well.
Read More »Theater Review (San Antonio): ‘Water By the Spoonful’ by Quiara Alegría Hudes at the Cellar Theater
The 2012 Pulitzer Prize winner comes to San Antonio's Cellar Theater in a well-mounted production.
Read More »Theater Review (Off Broadway-NYC): ‘Behind the Mask’
A Chinese acting troupe reluctantly comes together to rehearse an ancient play about a mythic hero and dictator tyrant king. They learn valuable lessons together and come to understand that the past isn't so far off after all. Human experience, destiny and truthful principles apply to all time.
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