Reviews
Racism and a Dozen Other Themes Dissected 160 Years Apart in The Confederates
The complex confluence of resonating past and present in Dominque Morisseau’s dense brilliant script interweaves with strong performances in New City Players’ well-titled The Confederates.
Slow Burn’s Bodyguard Musical Is A Welcome Surprise
It’s not necessary to be a fan of Whitney Houston’s music, or the film to enjoy The Bodyguard the Musical, wrapping up Slow Burn Theatre Co.’s fifteenth season, proving that just about anything can be made into a musical,, and a real audience pleaser from the get-go.
Latiné Theater Lab Debuts Unsettling Production of Mud
For its inaugural presentation, Latiné Theater Lab has chosen to mount María Irene Fornés’ Mud, a raw and unsettling drama that explores the limits of human aspiration in the face of poverty, ignorance, and control.
Pompano Players’ I Do! I Do! Returns To Follow Highs and Lows of a Half-Century Marriage
You are cordially invited to the wedding of Michael and Agnes at Pompano Players, just the beginning of the classic two-character musical I Do! I Do!, that tracks fifty years of the highs and lows of a typical marriage.
Society’s Failure To Help Impaired Children Is At Heart Of Dangerous Instruments
Pain, despair and desperation deepen in a swirling descent into a dread-encrusted darkness in the premiere of Gina Montét’s Dangerous Instruments at Palm Beach Dramaworks.
Clearly, not a spring lark musical; instead, a grueling message drama with gallows wit that should be performed throughout the country.
Fat Ham Redux Amped Up In GableStage’s Turn With BBQ Alongside Will Shakespeare
Island City Stage’s production of Fat Ham last month was funny, topical, engaging. But in its co-production at GableStage this weekend, four weekends of performances and two subsequent weeks of fine-tuning have generated a significantly amped up edition that vibrates with dynamic energy.
Truth Does Not Stop In Actors’ Playhouse’s The Girl on the Train
Actors’ Playhouse’s thrilling theater version of The Girl on the Train — bringing voyeurism to a new level — has a history, .
Varied ‘Truths’ Clash in Zoetic Stage’s The Comeuppance
Time, carrying the inevitability of mortality and exposing complex truths about our past, is the central vendor of the title in Zoetic Stage’s overwhelming drama The Comeuppance about a high school reunion comparing the present with the past that forged it.
“The Soundtrack of Your Life” with My Way at the Wick Theatre
During My Way at the Wick,, a singer says it’s the “soundtrack of your life.” She’s right, because this Frank Sinatra tribute is full of music enjoyed on romantic dates, at weddings, and maybe even at funerals. But a line about doing the entire canon over 8 days sometimes feels that way.
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