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Theater Review (NYC): ‘So Amazing!’ by Diana Brown – Solo Show Chronicles Cult Escape
Diana Brown digs into her own experience in a cult in her entertaining and thoughtful, if unpolished and not entirely satisfying, autobiographical solo show.
Read More »Theater Review (Off-Broadway NYC): ‘City of Glass’ by Paul Auster, Adapted by Edward Einhorn
A phone call, a question, a proposition, a journey. The power of uncertainty becomes its own destination.
Read More »Theater Review (San Antonio): Chekhov’s ‘The Seagull’ at the Classic Theatre
Chekhov’s seminal classic is given a marvelously entertaining production at the Deco District’s Classic Theatre.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Fen’ by Caryl Churchill
Stellar acting and Patricia Lynn's crisp direction rocket this revival of one of the prolific playwright's classic works into the top tier of Off-Off-Broadway accomplishment.
Read More »Theater Review (San Antonio): Jessica Dickey’s ‘The Amish Project’ at AtticRep
Originally presented to great acclaim at New York’s Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Jessica Dickey’s 2009 solo work The Amish Project comes to AtticRep in a superlative production starring a marvelous Sarah Gise. In a role — well, actually roles — originated by Dickey, Gise masterfully portrays seven characters in a piece …
Read More »Theater Review (Philadelphia): ‘The Hard Problem’ by Tom Stoppard at The Wilma Theatre
The irony of 'The Hard Problem' is that, despite its insistence on the fact that the human brain is so much more complex than a computer, which functions via simplistic binaries and calculations, the whole play is reducible to a simplistic, and false, binary.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Utility’ by Emily Schwend
Schwend is marvelous at depicting the quotidian details that harass struggling families in The Amoralists' new production, and Vanessa Vache gives one of the year's standout performances.
Read More »EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Todd Brian Backus, PowerOut Artistic Producer, on His New Play ‘Emily Dickinson: Paranormal Investigator’
A 19-year-old Emily Dickinson, teamed with Edgar Allan Poe, is the last line of defense between the everyday and a world of magic, ghosts, and vampires.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Commedia dell’Artichoke’
What do artichoke pizza and The American Dream have in common?
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