Archives for July 21, 2013

The good people at Wild Rumpus Productions should thank the deities of all the varied pantheons they found Manu Kumasi, star of solo comedy Sanka, Ya Dead Mon?. With off-the-chart presence and a natural comedian’s instinct Kumasi is never less than charmingly watchable. Unfortunately not even Kumasi’s considerable talents are able to keep Philip Dallmann’s […]

It is very rare that a theatre piece is able to overcome negative first reactions, but amazingly, Mirabilia is one such show. Presented as the inaugural production of Eclectic Mayhem Productions, this original fairy tale told largely in mime doesn’t seem like much on the surface. The intended audience is unclear, the sparse bits of […]

Travel should take you places—so says the tagline of a major hotel chain (and the Brooklyn-based indie band The Kickdrums). In his one-man show, The Chronic Single’s Handbook, Boston-based writer and performer Randy Ross brings the audience along on his search for love, which takes him across four continents. Unfortunately, after 60 minutes of storytelling, […]