Reviews
Two Sides to Every Story in Pigs Do Fly’s Painting Churches
The Church family does not put the fun in dysfunctional. This bothersome trio play out their convoluted story from the comfort of their living room in Pigs Do Fly Productions’ play, Painting Churches.
M Ensemble’s Revival Knock Me A Kiss Is Present Day Look at People in Harlem Renaissance
M Ensemble’s current revival of Knock Me A Kiss that it mounted in 2014 has different echoes in 2025.
A Century Later the Issues Remain in Dramaworks’ Camping With Henry and Tom
Thirty years ago, Mark St. Germain wrote a play Camping With Henry and Tom fictionalizing an actual meeting among Ford, Edison and President Harding. Given the politics, religion, racism, civic responsibility, and technology issues set in 1921, then the production at Palm Beach Dramaworks this month, he might have written it last week.
Comic ‘Fat Ham’ Echoes Hamlet Thru African-American Prism
Fat Ham, which tells of a young gay man at his Black family’s contentious backyard barbeque, is basically a huge grin. The fact that the ingenious plot intentionally echoes Hamlet does not cover up that this is simply a fun farce.
‘Sylvia’ is a Bad Dog From Curtain Call Playhouse at the Willow
If all of us liked the same things, it would be a truly dull world, but occasionally, like in Sylvia produced by Curtain Call Playhouse playing at the Willow Theatre, you have to wonder what a playwright was thinking when they took pen to paper.
Beliefs and Responsibility Grapple In Miami New Drama’s World Premiere Birthright
How do deeply held beliefs – religious, social, moral — guide us, persist, deteriorate or see us mutate as time and events challenge their truth and erode the bond among those raised on them. Birthright at Miami New Drama is an overwhelming, dense, heroically ambitious study of young people defining their identity and grappling how it copes with the modern world.
Dealing With Crippling Grief Is At Center of Theatre Lab’s The Impossible Task of Today
For some, grief is a long haul, the raw pangs never subsiding, but thriving, almost dictating a person’s daily actions even years later. At least that’s the way it is for Jack Jordan, the center of the emotionally gripping The Impossible Task of Today, a world premiere making its debut as part of Theatre Lab’s annual Owl New Play Festival.
A Sweet Slice of Theater: “Waitress” at Actors’ Playhouse
By Mariah Reed Waitress follows the story of Jenna, a talented pie maker working in a small-town diner who is trapped in an unhappy marriage. Haunted by her mother’s legacy of hardship, she finds refuge in baking, pouring her emotions into imaginative, …
‘Something Rotten’ Isn’t; It’s Hilarious For Musical Fans
In one of the most hilarious production numbers in recent musical comedy written specifically for musical fans, imagine: alternating lyrics among Shakespearean quotes, ribald puns and a chorus line holding up A Chorus Line’s resume photos.Slow Burn’s Something Rotten careens at Mach speed with the exuberant energy.
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