When Torch Song opened Off-Broadway a year ago, I noted that the issues affecting gay people that it explored remained unfortunately relevant 35 years after the play had debuted on Broadway, but that Harvey Fierstein’s landmark play felt like an old-fashioned comedy, in light of the diverse and sophisticated array of gay plays that had […]
Archives for November 5, 2018
Review: Callie Kimball’s Things that are Round debuts at Rep Stage
Things that are Round, Callie Kimball’s fine new play getting its world premiere at Rep Stage, could, with justice, be called Things that are Delusional, for it is the power and authority of things which are not true and not real which do the hard work of the play. It begins with an ordinary interview […]
Review: Apocalypse Soon, buffet is great, political satire’s hard
Washington DC has quite a rich tradition in political satire, from local legends The Capitol Steps to one-off play commissions at local theaters like Signature to niche private functions only advertised by whispers. City in a Swamp Productions aims to be the next topical phenomenon with pastiche political musical revues and their most recent foray […]