No Exit – Scena Theatre

By: Juliet Moser
Mirrors. We use them every day, find them in all sort of obvious locations. One could almost say that we even take mirrors for granted, simply assuming that they will always be there when we need them. But what if you were never to see a mirror again – could never glance at [...]

Poe 2000

By: Walter Ruff

Meat and Potato Theater’s production of Poe 2000, a collection of Edgar Allan Poe’s works mounted at the Playbill Café is just in time for Halloween. Playwright-director-actor Tobin Atkinson has succeeded in bringing something different and exciting to the stage while preserving the aberrant and ghoulish nature of Poe’s poems and writings. Previously [...]

Bright Ideas – Didactic Theatre

By: Walter Ruff

Every generation reinvents child rearing, thinking they have new insights the previous generation did not, almost as if their generation was the first to raise brilliant scientists, authors, painters, inventors and statesmen. The current breeding class puts an immense amount of pressure on themselves to find the BEST preschool, getting put onto waiting [...]

Mother and Child Reunion

Quite a few years ago I lost my mother to cancer and to this day I wonder what it might be like to see her one last time. What would I say? What would she say? What would I feel? All these thoughts came to mind after seeing Michel Tremblay’s play For the Pleasure of [...]

Bell, Book and Candle

By: Walter Ruff

It’s a classic story of supernatural love and crafty trickery. Bell, Book and Candle is a wonderful play, originally brought to the stage in 1950 and to film eight years later. Vpstart Crow has mounted a fantastic production of this off beat love story for the Halloween season. John William Van Druten’s play is [...]