Maybe I’m over-analyzing things. But after a thorough review of the evidence, plus an extensive background check, I’m just not convinced that the Kinsey Sicks are actually running for president. [Read more...]

Faith can bind people together under the banner of common belief, or it can create deep rifts, irreconcilable by way of reason or shared history. In Theater J’s lovingly crafted production of Renee Calarco’s The Religion Thing, a polished cast navigates the playwright’s meditation upon the complex role of faith in relationships, marked by a heady brew of razor sharp humor, repressed secrets, and raw emotion. [Read more...]

Some memories waft into view from a lazy distance. Others brew slowly in the back of the mind. No such luck for Quentin, whose trip down memory lane isn’t so much a stroll as a triathlon, elbowed from all sides by the family, friends, and lovers of days gone by. If he runs off track from time to time, caught up in the flashes of what he might have done and said, we can hardly blame him. [Read more...]

“Bernie, do you follow baseball?” asks gnomish, delightful Solomon Galkin (Mike Nussbaum). He is talking to Bernard Madoff (Rick Foucheux), the most notorious criminal of the twenty-first century. “It’s a marvelous game…It just goes on and on, there’s no clock! Always, we live by the clock, but not in baseball!”

And so Deb Margolin’s Imagining Madoff is like baseball, and also like life: it takes as long as it does. That’s not to say it’s overlong (it clocks in at a crisp ninety minutes) but that it is unhurried; it proceeds at the speed of life. [Read more...]