As a Fringe reviewer, it is always nice to read something in a program that acknowledges the challenges of creating the play in question. In the words of Charlie Fink, producer of Who’s Your Baghdaddy? Or How I Started The Iraq War, talking about the original screenplay written by JT Allen: [Read more...]

What do the women do while the men are at war?

It is this question, asked in the midst of an all-out musical and visual spectacle, that drives director Tracey Elaine Chessum’s production of The Many Women of Troy. And I mean ‘spectacle’ in every sense of the word. After watching the first fifteen minutes, you may find yourself opening up the program to see if Timothy Leary acted as a consultant at any point in this play’s development. This wasn’t a bad thing; just not what I was expecting at all. [Read more...]

Many people have attempted adaptations of Hamlet. And so has Mel Gibson. Anytime it happens, there is always the problem of how to faithfully depict Shakespeare’s masterpiece without going too far. Why break it if you can’t fix it? [Read more...]

David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross is a top notch play. Saturday’s performance at the Warehouse was a quality one, but it did not exceed expectations. Call me jaded, but this production of Glengarry Glen Ross needed something more than what was there. [Read more...]

Have you ever met a human manifestation of the ozone layer before?

I hadn’t either, but upon viewing Terry McKinstry’s 70 Million Tons, my answer to that question will never be the same. And it’s for the better. We spend plenty of time personifying the planet (Earth Day, Mother Earth, etc.), but to give a theatrical presence to a specific layer of the Earth’s atmosphere? It’s a nice touch, especially when said layer is getting absolutely tarnished by humans and isn’t exactly visible when looking up at the sky. [Read more...]