Tweeting “And there goes the last ten years of my life,” Charlene V. Smith, Artistic Director of Brave Spirits Theatre, announced the cancelation of the company’s Shakespeare’s Histories. Performing Shakespeare’s eight history plays, in rep, in two years, was an epic undertaking, and for Brave Spirits, its first few months of the run were successful, […]
Archives for September 15, 2020
Review: The Humans, streamed. Olney cast excels in closeup of Stephen Karam’s American family
Public health officials are recommending Zoom Thanksgiving festivities this year, but you can celebrate early with a boisterous and bittersweet sit-down with the Blake family, the proud and careworn family in Stephen Karam’s play The Humans. The Humans was in rehearsal at Olney Theatre Company when the Coronavirus upended the theater industry, among many others. […]
Actors and politicians in STC’s Will on the Hill. Can The Bard guide us in these tempestuous times?
If you are inclined to self-righteousness – and, really, who isn’t? – you might be prepared to look down your nose at the various Senators, House Members and other political high rollers who gathered together to produce 2020’s Will on the Hill – or Won’t They? After all, what are they doing pretending to be […]