Tag Archives: Main Street Players
MSP’s Heart-Pounding Riveting Contemporary Take On Medea
Expect emotional whiplash in Main Street Players’ heart-pounding production of a lean and riveting modern adaptation of Euripides’ Greek tragedy, Medea. The dizzying contrast between moods—jarringly funny at first, then devastating—underscores how quickly our lives often return to normal following tragedies.
Big Ideas Abound in Main Street Players’ Revolutionists
When assassin Charlotte Corday declares, “We are all in a play that someone else is writing,” we know we’re stepping into a world steeped in existential tension. We brace ourselves for big ideas—and Lauren Gunderson’s The Revolutionists delivers. But it also surprises, infusing sharp wit and heartfelt humility into its bold exploration of the human condition in crisis running at Main Street Players.
Very Different Holmes & Watson At Main Street, Not 221B
Thanks to the tremendous energy of the actors at Main Street Players’ Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson – Apt. 2B), there’s never a dull moment, but because of its confusing jam-packed script, it often feels like it doesn’t really know what it wants to be, and the ending comes across as simply preposterous.
Aesop’s Fable-ous Xmas Tree Gifts Tales To Celebrate
In Aesop’s Fable-ous Christmas Tree at Main Street Players, Aesop’s fables receive a holiday spin in vignettes illuminating important life lessons by reinventing the classic fables. Humor, rhythmic elements, rapping, puppetry, poetry, song, and storytelling combine to create a vivacious and humorous afternoon or evening of live theater.
Main Street Players’ Topdog/Underdog Is Slow Motion Shattering Drama
Main Street Players’ version of Suzan-Lori Parks’ Topdog/Underdog rewards the patient patron is watching a slow-motion shattering of two brothers struggling with institutionalized racism, poverty, sibling rivalry, and troubled pasts stretching from childhood to last week.
Main Street Players’ Facile Black Sheep a Surreal Struggle
Main Street Players struggles bravely to conquer Lee Blessing’s satire on race and privilege in Black Sheep, but stumbles on tonal uncertainty. and fails to reach the script’s potential.
Racial Issues Permeate Main Street’ Players’ ‘Shakespeare is a White Supremacist’
The premise: A white director leads a multi-ethnic cast in a Midsummer’s Night as an answer to charges of institutional racism. But with wry humor and painfully incisive drama, Main Street Players’ edition of Andrew Watring’s “Shakespeare is a White Supremacist” examines the intersection of theater and racism as a metaphor for larger problems afflicting society in 21st Century America.
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