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A Few Good Men is one of the more successful contemporary courtroom dramas and Zemfira Stage’s production fully realizes the dramatic potential of the script. [Read more...]
The Oresteia They did it again. Constellation Theater, just finishing its first season yet already establishing a track record of stunning productions, has added a spectacular rendering of Greek tragedy to its repertory. With a cast of almost thirty actors, a percussionist on stage, moodily placed fog and mist, and a huge coliseum set with columns that extend to the expansive rafters of the Clark Street Playhouse (lighting and set design by A.J. Guban), The Oresteia transports the audience to an ancient time to witness the essential core of theater. These folks are unstoppable.
Closing TimeIreland’s recent successes – it is among the most prosperous nations in Europe, now, and there is peace in the Occupied Counties for the first time in more than a generation – may prove a curse to a particularly glorious class of Irishmen: Irish playwrights.
Looking for Roberto ClementeDo You Remember Where You Were…?
When you heard about 9/11? When space shuttle Columbia crashed? When JFK was assassinated? Most people remember where they were when pivotal events in history occurred. And like any other Pittsburgher, I remember when I learned in 1972 of the passing of our local hero, Roberto Clemente. [Read more...]
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The School for ScandalThe Folger’s done it again: taken a classic from an earlier era and turned it into a contemporary cautionary tale of a situation so in-the-moment as to have been heralded, just four days into its run, by a Washington Post Style article dissecting the very phenomenon it portrays. [Read more...]
Tues – May 13 — It’s the show that has captured my heart and the hearts of my friends. It’s energetic and exciting, and it’s an old fashioned Broadway musical with a Latin twist. Today, In The Heights received a well-deserved 13 Tony Awards nominations. [Read more...]
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This may be the shortest, sharpest – and the most seemingly effortlessly poetic – play you’ll see outside of the Capital Fringe Festival. Like some of those memorable mini- quasi- master sketches, “Crumble,” in a little more than an hour, draws an astute and affecting portrait of two sisters; the preteen daughter /niece whose mercurial moods and needs whet their differences; and the ways in which inanimate objects can serve as a silent sounding board for their, and by extension, our unarticulated fears and desires, and as a springboard to help us identify and at last, deal with them. [Read more...]
Forget all you’ve heard about Antony and Cleopatra, the great romantics. Forget all that claptrap about Antony as a love-addled cat’s-paw for the seductive Cleo. Throw it in the ash heap of history. Instead, believe Bill Shakespeare and Michael Kahn. Antony (Andrew Long) and Cleopatra (Suzanne Bertish) are political allies who cement their bond with great sex. They are much too self-absorbed to love each other, or even to know what love means.
Seeing this play as a sequel to Julius Caesar (with which it is running in rep) clarifies it in startling ways. Antony here is a hard-drinking party boy who lies as easily as he breathes. [Read more...]
The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?This is a play about a man who has sex with a goat – enthusiastically, and frequently. He is in love. Although he has a sweet and intelligent wife, and his life is otherwise a fantastic success, he longs to go behind the barn in rustic Connecticut, and there swive his bovid beloved. Full of hillocky infatuation, he can barely function in modern society. He loses his shaving head, and the meaning of the business card in his pocket. [Read more...]
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