Signature Theatre is known for reviving and revamping long forgotten musicals – and they don’t shy away from a challenge. Grand Hotel tells the story of a handful of strangers, drawn together as guests of the titular hotel at the center of Berlin during the city’s “Golden Era” of the mid- to late- 1920’s. During […]
Archives for April 15, 2019
Review: Beckett Trio, Part 2 from Scena Theatre
“Stay,” the dying beloved tells her lover, “where we were so long alone together. My shade will comfort you.” But of course he does not, and instead moves to a single room in a place where two rivers join to form a third. And from there he walks to the banks of the river and […]
Review: Ayad Akhtar’s Junk at Arena Stage
In Shakespeare’s time, Christians were forbidden to lend money at interest (see Merchant of Venice) and so the Western world, intellectually vibrant though it was, was mostly economically stagnant. Only the wealthiest could finance their own enterprises, which they did at great risk. People lived with their parents well into adulthood, and thereafter constructed their […]