'Odd Birdz' combines a hint of vaudeville and a touch of the Marx Brothers with moments of zany 'Laugh-In'-era humor and a dose of performance-art archness.
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Theater Review (San Antonio): ‘Carrie: the Musical’ at the Woodlawn Theatre
Good performances and a solid production help to compensate for the show's rather weak score.
Read More »Theatre Review (Singapore): ‘Priscilla, Queen of the Desert’ by Stephan Elliott and Allan Scott
The acting and accents aren't the greatest, but fine singing voices will have you humming and singing the retro tunes hours after you leave the theatre.
Read More »Theater Review (San Antonio): ‘The Rocky Horror Show’
The audience-participation stalwart gets an imaginative revisualization in its annual staging at the Woodlawn Theatre.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Six Passionate Women’ by Mario Fratti
This comedy inspired by Federico Fellini's filmmaking foibles and womanizing ways starts amusingly, but ultimately disappoints.
Read More »Theatre Review (Singapore): ‘Gitanjali [I Feel the Earth Move]’ by The Necessary Stage
Despite a too-common plot, this entertaining play about an Indian Odissi dancer was well-acted and danced.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Mr. Landing Takes a Fall’ by Sari Caine
Inspired by 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?', this new production from Slightly Altered States is absurd, emotionally acute, Python-esque, brilliantly acted, and ultimately incomprehensible.
Read More »Theatre Review (Singapore): ‘The Arsonists’ at Hot Chocolate Theatre
Though the production is very problematic, it should be considered a feather in Hot Chocolate's cap that this brand-new amateur theatre could do something difficult.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘The Valley of Astonishment’ by Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne
Stories of synaesthesia inspired by Oliver Sacks, a celebrated mnemonist, and an ancient Sufi poem.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘The McGowan Trilogy’ by Seamus Scanlon
This taut and suspenseful character play concerns a youth, a 'charming bad boy' with murderous urges, who lends his services to the IRA.
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