[Editor’s note: DCTS had been planning to review Kennedy’s debut play Etta and Ella on the Upper West Side, before we ceased publication on Dec 31. The reading was rescheduled, and so I recommend Jonathan Mandell’s Kennedy festival review.] When I first encountered Adrienne Kennedy, through her Obie award winning 1964 play Funnyhouse of a […]
Archives for November 2, 2020
Review: Roaring, Best Medicine’s 20’s comedy, a fun diversion
Roaring is a peek at the tumultuous 1920’s as seen through the eyes of a plucky go-getter, Mabel Daniels (Kara Burri). In this fun-filled digital original by Best Medicine Rep’s John Morogiello, we witness history unfold as Mabel romps through the decade finding her own way while history unfolds under her feet. Determined to call […]
Gonzales Cantata: A moment of profound American shame gets set to music
Melissa Dunphy’s The Gonzales Cantata, which will begin its run on In Series’ website November 3, is an opera with a unique libretto – transcripts of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearings on Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’ December 7, 2006 decision to fire seven United States Attorneys. Though it may be strange to hear the words […]