Ella

  • ella.jpgElla
  • By Jeffrey Hatcher
  • Conceived by Rob Ruggiero and Dyke Garrison
  • Presented by Arena Stage
  • Reviewed by Debbie Minter Jackson

A Tisket, a Tasket– only the marvelous vocals of Ella Fitzgerald could turn a children’s play song about losing a yellow basket into a scat-wielding marvel and only the unassumingly delightful Tina Fabrique could make it swing.  In this upbeat, sassy production Ella, at the newly revamped temporary home of Arena Stage, Ms. Fabrique hits her stride channeling the energy and pizzazz of legendary jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald with enough bee-bop to shimmy across the innovatively designed new stage.

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Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind

  • toomuchlight1.jpgToo Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind
  • (30 Plays in 60 Minutes)
  • Written, Produced and Directed by the Neo-Futurists
  • Reviewed by Tim Treanor

Well. Ten-minute plays, five-minute plays, and now … this. Is it possible that in this brain-ADDled age, thirty plays in sixty minutes could sink through our consciousness, make us laugh, make us think?

Could five gifted actors, seeped in the art of improvisation, bring us to emotional satori, to catharsis and consciousness, with art which averages two minutes in duration?

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