Archives for July 22, 2012

I imagine that performing alone before an audience for forty-five minutes is far from easy, however, comedian/actress Kelley Quinn makes a fair first attempt in Discharged, a one-woman show by Erin Webreck.

The pop of a champagne bottle signifies the beginning of the voyage. Welcome aboard! It’s smooth sailing from start to finish, but the journey I’m talking about isn’t on a ship. Well, not literally.

Everyone can get behind “Angry Birds”—even my dad, at 66, refuses to surrender the IPAD these days—but, God’s into it as well?  Would it surprise you if that has been the hold-up for unfulfilled prayers since 2010?  The Big Guy’s been too busy shooting-off virtual fowl to deal with the love and life muddles into […]

Using one woman’s extraordinary story – and photo album – Onalea Gilbertson’s beautiful song cycle was a vivacious celebration of a exceptional life. Blanche: The Bittersweet Life of a Wild Prairie Dame was first performed in the 2011 New York Music Theatre Festival.

The Bedroom is by the far the worst venue I have yet to view a play in.  The low ceilings provide for terrible sightlines, especially for those not in the first few rows.  This also creates really atrocious lighting angles.  I’m not sure why, but the acoustics are as bad as I’ve run into as […]