Starting this week, Nu Sass stages Sartre’s famous play as it was first presented, performing No Exit in a living room size venue with space for just 20 people. Here, director Angela Kay Pirko examines her discoveries from the play.
Archives for November 2015
The Cripple of Inishmaan from Scena Theatre (review)
The Cripple of Inishmaan by Martin McDonagh takes place in the isolated Aran Islands, off the coast of Ireland, in 1934. The familiar rhythms of life on the island of Inishmaan are disrupted when news that a Hollywood film crew has arrived to make a movie about life on a neighboring island.
Unexplored Interior from Mosaic Theater Company
Mosaic Theater Company does not, it appears, intend to tread lightly. Its inaugural season opened with the new play by Jay O. Sanders, Unexplored Interior (This Is Rwanda: The Beginning and End of the Earth.) The play addresses the catastrophic violence of Rwandan genocide, and the shameful lack of response from the rest of the world. […]
Deathtrap, frightfully fun, at NextStop Theatre (review)
It’s sometimes hard to properly merge comedy with suspense on the stage, but at NextStop Theatre, Deathtrap is a diabolically clever thriller that combines acerbic wit, mysterious anticipation and plenty of mayhem.
A smart, surreal Smartphones from Ambassador Theater (review)
A must-see, wacky send-up, Smartphones, is a fast-paced one-act about the fear of life without a mobile phone. Written in English by Spanish playwright Emilio Williams, award-winning director Joe Banno gives it a larger-than-life staging.
Fences scores a hit at Everyman Theatre (review)
Sometimes you just get in your own way. Dragging my heels on Fences at Everyman due to a horrible cold and my dogged belief it is not my favorite August Wilson play—Pulitzer Prize and love for the playwright notwithstanding. Turns out, it’s not the play. I had never seen a production of Fences that did […]
Darius & Twig, a lyrical, affecting tale of friendship and perseverance at The Kennedy Center
“What happens to a dream deferred?…Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?” wondered poet Langston Hughes in his 1951 work “Harlem”.
Winners and Losers, a sure win at Woolly Mammoth (review)
What determines whether something is a winner or a loser? Names and places like the Washington Monument, Bernie Sanders, and indigenous people from other nations are subject to discussion (and dismissal) as two Canadian actors have it out over what has succeeded and what failed.
Brooklyn to Broadway with Randy Graff (review)
“Made in Brooklyn…Bound for Broadway” is the cabaret performance by Randy Graff that played Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater as the most recent entry in its Barbara Cook Spotlight series.
King Charles III Review: The Current British Royal Family in A Shakespearean “Future History Play”
Is there some reason why an American audience should care about the future of the British monarchy? That’s the question that hangs over King Charles III, playwright Mike Bartlett’s cleverly conceived play, simultaneously stately and subversive, that imagines what will happen after the death of Queen Elizabeth II, when the Prince of Wales ascends the […]