A world premiere from a local actor/playwright, a co-production, an old favorite, two musicals, and two stories about, or almost about, actual events make up Keegan Theatre’s 2019-2020 season. Jeremy Skidmore’s back in town to direct Brandon McCoy’s world premiere West By God, which will open the company’s season. This play tracks two families in […]
Archives for May 9, 2019
Review: The Oresteia, a stunning production marks Michael Kahn’s final show as STC Artistic Director
It seems somehow written in the stars that Michael Kahn would choose the world premiere of Ellen McLaughlin’s The Oresteia as the final show of his towering tenure as Artistic Director at the Shakespeare Theatre Company. Great man. Epic trilogy. The Shakespeare Theatre commissioned Ellen McLaughlin to tackle Aeschylus’ three-part play about the cursed House […]
Review: The Children at Studio Theatre
Admittedly, the synopsis for the dystopian kitchen-sink drama The Children at Studio Theatre didn’t tremendously excite me initially, notwithstanding the interest in acclaimed British playwright Lucy Kirkwood. But Studio has earned the benefit of my doubt and I thought there must be something to it—it’s probably going to shine or sizzle in the writing and […]
Review: God of Carnage at Keegan Theatre
“In the end, we’re all just taller children,” croons Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Elizabeth Ziman on her band, Elizabeth & The Catapult’s, aptly title 2009 song, “Taller Children.” This is the lyric that immediately sprang to mind as I watched Yasmina Reza’s God of Carnage unspool in front of me at the Keegan Theatre—a finely designed and […]
“An act of rebellion and love.” Luis Salgado and cast on GALA’s bilingual Fame the Musical
Fame the Musical is “an act of rebellion and an act of love.” This is how Colombia-born Latino actor Carlos Salazar describes GALA Hispanic Theatre’s latest bilingual (Spanish and English) musical, directed by Luis Salgado. “It is rebellion because in a contemporary U.S. where we see so many who want to silence difference, Fame focuses […]