CAN HORROR WORK ONSTAGE? PARANORMAL ACTIVITY MAKES ITS CASE I imagine most people's response to hearing that Paranormal Activity has been turned into a stage play is a raised eyebrow"doubt m…
NEITHER FOOLS NOR COWARDS Michael Arden is a Renaissance artist. He approaches his work with a humanist curiosity, an intricate yet organic perfectionism, and a keen eye for composition, mov…
ONCE UPON A MATTRESS LIVES HAPPILY EVER AFTER Almost two hundred years ago, Hans Christian Andersen penned a quaint story about a lonesome prince in search of a woman who can prove to his mo…
A LIVING PORTRAIT Regular patrons of the theatre are accustomed to passively sitting back, letting the story flow off the stage and course through them. Life & Times Of Michael K is not …
TIME I'LL NEVER GET BACK Any time I see a show that truly knocks it out of the park, it fills me with so much joy to be able to review it. Nothing quite compares to the transcendent experien…
YOUR GREAT ADVENTURE AWAITS If you rearrange the letters of "progeria," you can get "opera rig," or "rigor ape," or "prior age." That last one is befitting. Progeria is an incredibly rare sy…
THE COMPANY WE KEEP To wed or not to wed " that is the question that Stephen Sondheim poses in his 1970 musical Company, for which he is the composer and lyricist (with a book by George Furt…
A STRANGE LOOP'S IDENTITY CRISIS See if you can guess which musical this is. "A young black man sets out on a spiritual journey to discover his art, love, and himself. Along the way, he enco…
RONNIE BURKETT HAS THE WORLD ON A STRING You haven't lived until you've seen Santa as a beer-bellied, Silverlake bear puppet twerking in a nightclub with Jesus and the Tooth Fairy. Wonderful…
PAGE BY PAGE Anyone who gets a standing ovation merely by entering the room has undoubtedly accomplished something great. Ken Page's illustrious career and sterling character earned him such…
FATHER V. SON Over 2,000 people stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Within two years, more than 1,200 attackers would be charged. One such perpetrator, Guy Reffitt from Texas, was c…