Corteo

FOR CLOWNS LIKE US, HEAVEN CAN’T WAIT
Corteo, by Cirque du Soleil
Reviewed by Tim Treanor

          Let’s get some things clear at the outset.  There is nothing in the world like Cirque du Soleil.  Watching Cirque, you will see men and women do things you thought were beyond human capability. 

Orange Flower Water

Love and Rockets
By Fiona Zublin 
Orange Flower Water -  Didactic Theatre 
            At Sunday’s performance of Orange Flower Water, two women behind me were arguing the merits of a black box space.  One loved its possibilities, its blank slate qualities-the other was annoyed by its limitations of space.  Didactic Theatre Company uses their black box expertly.  With [...]

Ari Roth speaks with Joel

Artistic Director Ari Roth speaks with Joel about working with noted theatre scholar and critic Robert Brustein, whose latest play Spring Forward, Fall Back premieres at Theater J this month.
Listen here.

Crestfall

Crestfall -  Studio Theatre    
By: Debbie M. Jackson
Crestfall, currently playing at Studio Theatre’s Secondstage, written by brazen young Irish  playwright Mark O’Rowe fulfills the  historical legacy of rock solid story telling, cut with a piercingly modern and urban edge. 

Never the Sinner

Never The Sinner is Not Yet There
By: Fiona Zublin
Never The Sinner - Actor’s Theater Of Washington 
            In 1924, two teenagers, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, committed murder for no reason.  They were intelligent-both had IQs placing them well above “genius”-and bored, and rich.  They have fascinated the world ever since, and make for great drama.  [...]

The Katrina Project

Award-winning play on Hurricane Katrina
Hattiesburg High students will travel to Washington, D.C., to present a performance of “The Katrina Project: Hell and High Water,” an emotional journey into the hearts and souls of Hurricane Katrina’s survivors, at the historic Lincoln Theater.

The Bluest Eye

The Bluest Eye - The Hottest Ticket
Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye”   -  Theater Alliance   
By: Debbie Minter Jackson
Developed in Chicago and on its way to New York City, The Bluest Eye is having its East Coast premiere at Theater Alliance amidst plenty of advanced press and serious buzz, all well deserved, by the way. 

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How to Fill a Wild Bikini

How to Fill a Wild Bikini
Produced by Teatro de la Luna
by Rosalind Lacy 
With a play entitled How To Fill a Wild Bikini, I confess I sat down expecting a bedroom farce. But I came away emotionally moved by something far more profound, thanks to a wonderful actress from Uruguay- Graciela Rodriguez.
Miguel Falabella is a Brazilian [...]

I Always Wanted to Be the Chair Man

RAVES FOR THE FISH BUT WHY WAS THE FISH TANK HALF EMPTY?
by Joel Markowitz
Girl in a Goldfish Bowl, Woyzak and Tintypes
I have a bone to pick with all you theatre goers in this area, for it’s hard to scale down my intense disappointment that a beautifully written Canadian play that worked so swimmingly well on [...]

Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui

The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui,
by Bertold Brecht

Produced by Catalyst Theater Company

Reviewed by Tim Treanor

For Bertold Brecht, theater was always a sort of sermonette disguised as a circus act.  When he was at his most speculative and general - Threepenny Opera comes to mind - his plays were like the planet Jupiter, huge and [...]

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