Attention Musical Writers: Urinetown is not a template. The first time we see a Musical which is all about subverting musical conventions, it’s cute. But it gets awfully old awfully quickly after that. [Read more...]
Slave Narratives Revisited
Nothing quite puts today’s national political election is perspective like Slave Narratives. This production is a fascinating montage of voices, experiences, and resilience of captured Africans [Read more...]
B-Digga Presents
“Man, I forgot the Fringe was a theatre festival,” shrugged the rapper E.R.K. as he jauntily took stage Saturday afternoon. “I’m music,” he laughed. “Well alright. Here we go.” [Read more...]
Hold Me, Drill Me, Kiss Me
Hold Me, Drill Me, Kiss Me is a slender but amusing monologue by a guy named Joe Zarrow. Mr. Zarrow is a courageous and ambitious fellow: [Read more...]
The Cloud Factory
Crashing Home
Crashing Home 
Danielle Martin
Four vignettes that use song, yoga, metaphor, and video to present the facets of womanity. Disclaimer: while I adore feminist plays and work (it was thrust and vantage of my thesis), this particular vein of reclamation [Read more...]
Four Rooms Waking
Perhaps Four Rooms Waking means the same thing as Four Plays in the Same Room Running at Roughly the Same Time. I hope so; otherwise I went to the wrong play. [Read more...]
The Overwhelming
The Overwhelming- By J.T. Rogers
- Produced at the Contemporary American Theater Festival
- Directed by Ed Herendeen
- Reviewed by Tim Treanor
“When, in the history of the world,” the cynical American bureaucrat Woolsey (Michael Goodwin) asks Professor Exley, (Lee Sellars), new to Rwanda, “has there been a country with a foreign policy based on ‘It’s the right thing to do?’” [Read more...]




















