Courage

Somewhat like the poetry of e.e. cummings—whose lower-case, typographically bizarre verse forms promised to shake up literary convention but actually built upon it—the lower-case “dog & pony dc” ensemble aims to take accepted canonical texts and re-scramble them. Case in point: their current production of Courage: A Political Theatre Revival. [Read more...]

Suburban Motel

“When I think about things I don’t understand, I get depressed,” says dimbulb R.J. (Ryan Tumulty) in Risk Everything, the better of the two George F. Walker one-acts now being produced by 1st Stage. R.J. gets depressed a lot. But for the rest of us, in a context where truth is as elusive as quicksilver, the primary sensation is elation. [Read more...]

Source Festival – Group A

Ten minute plays can always be relied on to hit their marks, be short and sweet, and if one doesn’t work for you, just a wait a few minutes and something else more satisfying will probably come along.  That’s the case with the Group A selections of the Source Festival’s 10-Minute series. Especially if you have the patience to wait until after intermission, you won’t be disappointed and will easily find yourself eager to come back for more. [Read more...]