Archives for October 2006

Corteo, by Cirque du Soleil Reviewed by Tim Treanor Let’s get some things clear at the outset.  There is nothing in the world like Cirque du Soleil.  Watching Cirque, you will see men and women do things you thought were beyond human capability. 

Love and Rockets By Fiona Zublin  Orange Flower Water –  Didactic Theatre              At Sunday’s performance of Orange Flower Water, two women behind me were arguing the merits of a black box space.  One loved its possibilities, its blank slate qualities-the other was annoyed by its limitations of space.  Didactic Theatre Company uses their black […]

Crestfall –  Studio Theatre By: Debbie M. Jackson Crestfall, currently playing at Studio Theatre’s Secondstage, written by brazen young Irish  playwright Mark O’Rowe fulfills the  historical legacy of rock solid story telling, cut with a piercingly modern and urban edge. The individual stories are told by three highly accomplished actresses monologue style with no interaction among them, […]

Never The Sinner is Not Yet There By: Fiona Zublin Never The Sinner – Actor’s Theater Of Washington              In 1924, two teenagers, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, committed murder for no reason.  They were intelligent-both had IQs placing them well above “genius”-and bored, and rich.  They have fascinated the world ever since, and make […]

Watching 1984 at the Playbill was like double-warped time travel.  My vivid flashbacks of how far into the future that date seemed as a kid in the 1960’s, collided with the present reality of how long ago it was, only to be smacked with the parallels between the Big Brother totalitarian state and U.S.A. in […]

The Bluest Eye – The Hottest Ticket Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye”   –  Theater Alliance    By: Debbie Minter Jackson Developed in Chicago and on its way to New York City, The Bluest Eye is having its East Coast premiere at Theater Alliance amidst plenty of advanced press and serious buzz, all well deserved, by the way.