Every Night I Die is a tragic tale of love and loss. It deals in a delicate subject matter that leads to jaw-dropping dramatic moment. Playwright Amanda Andrei spins the story with just the right amount of twists and turns within an hour’s time. The actors have the challenge to fill that range from the antihero, the temptress, and the benevolent wife to the raging brother. [Read more...]

A true hero leads with great sacrifice. Jack Wassell, who plays Socrates in Socrates the Lover, epitomizes the character with a noble calling. His Socrates has a sharp, wielding power that is felt throughout the production. We gain a strong understanding for Socrates’ character in both the professional and personal realms. [Read more...]

The events of September 11^th, 2001 left Americans, English and Irish travelers stranded for days in the 10,000 plus town of Gandor, Newfoundland. The travelers were making the transoceanic flight across the Atlantic to New York City when American soil was attacked. In midair, the planes were diverted to Gandor International Airport. The travelers were forced to settle in the hotels of Gandor without their personal luggage for roughly a week. Thus began the adventures of Michael Walsh. [Read more...]

With Ann Noble’s energetic, solo performance in Stanley Ann: The Unlikely Story of Barack Obama’s Mother, we come to learn the life of Stanley Ann Dunham, the mother of the 44^th President of the United States, Barack Obama, Jr. and get introduced to a brave, adventurous woman whose tests of moral survival ran thick. [Read more...]

Ellouise Schoettler is an enthusiast of genealogy. My Diamond Jubilee is her first public performance telling her autobiographical story of Finding Gus. Based on how the performance is staged, it is easy to imagine that before she only told the story in the comfort of her home. [Read more...]

Manifesto! is a joyous flight into the world of physical theater. Entire schools of thought are turned on their head and spun into zany interpretations with heart-pumping theatrics. Every word, noise and movement is finely tuned to leave you in hysterics. Characters fly through the air in slow motion sequences. The art movement, Dadaism, is defined and redefined nearly 50 times.

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The first sight we catch, at the beginning of Spirit Tales, is a man and woman staring begrudgingly at one another. From this interaction and the first scene alone we can loosely understand that the play is about relationships created between men and women. [Read more...]