1,044 stories by "Kerry Reid"
As those of us who have recently reached the midcentury point know all too well, when those older folks from your childhood told you "it all goes so fast," they weren't kidding. Sometimes it…
In a New York Times article on April 17 titled "Why Americans Don't Want to Soak the Rich," writer Neil Irwin pointed out that "Americans' desire to soak the rich has diminished even as the …
Ernestine Harris, the matriarch of a music-loving family in small-town Mississippi, has left this earthly realm. No fan of the typical weepy memorial, she's charged her loved ones with throw…
Years ago, the humorist Roy Blount Jr. observed that a cat wasn't enough like having another person in the house, whereas a dog was too much like having another person in the house. He didn'…
Any play that uses a young person's death as its opening narrative gambit could fairly be accused of milking the audience's sympathy ducts. But what if the kid in question isn't all that sym…
Seeing Elaine Romero's "Graveyard of Empires" at 16th Street Theater on the 150th anniversary of General Lee's surrender at Appomattox added a touch of poignancy to this poetic and surprisin…
Seeing Elaine Romero's "Graveyard of Empires" at 16th Street Theater on the 150th anniversary of General Lee's surrender at Appomattox added a touch of poignancy to this poetic and surprisin…
Todd Bauer's "The Bird Feeder Doesn't Know" provides yet another entry in the burgeoning field of plays about grown children confronting the frailties " physical and emotional " of their agi…
In a theater landscape littered with productions of Charles Mee's pop culture mashups of Greek tragedies, Jean Giradoux can't get any respect. But Giradoux's 1935 elegant tragicomedy, "The T…
In "The Third Man," Orson Welles' Harry Lime famously observes, "In Switzerland they had brotherly love " they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clo…
Tony Kushner's 1988 re-imagining of Pierre Corneille's 1636 play "L'Illusion Comique" is a tricky beast to pull off. Its earnest meditations on the tensions between romantic imagination and …
If Ed Wood had lived in 17th-century France, he might have been a bit like Valere, the effusive idiot at the heart of David Hirson's "La Bete" who crosses verbal swords with a fellow playwri…
Tony Kushner's 1988 re-imagining of Pierre Corneille's 1636 play "L'Illusion Comique" is a tricky beast to pull off. Its earnest meditations on the tensions between romantic imagination and …
Vigilante black comedies aren't a new idea. Heck, some of 'em let you sing along. (Hello, "9 to 5" and "First Wives Club.") But the tricky part is getting the tone right. When mordant wit tu…
Dylan Costello's Hollywood drama "The Glass Protege" has a split personality " and not just because it jumps between 1949 and 1989. In part, it seems derived from Kenneth Anger's "Hollywood …
Long ago, during one of those late-night chin-wags beloved of self-conscious undergrads, a dorm-mate erupted into a tirade against Sophocles' Antigone, whom she deemed "a useless martyr." An…
Full disclosure: I've never made it all the way through "The Lord of the Rings" " on the page or on screen. My notions of Arthurian legend derive from seeing "Monty Python and the Holy Grail…
In a widely shared article on the website The Archipelago last month, autistic writer Sarah Kurchak took to task the "anti-vaxxers" who have used the long-discredited notion that vaccines…
In a widely shared article on the website The Archipelago last month, autistic writer Sarah Kurchak took to task the "anti-vaxxers" who have used the long-discredited notion that vaccines…
In the past, Akvavit Theatre's offerings from the contemporary Nordic theatrical canon have felt decidedly on the bleak side, steeped in black humor and a frozen vein of static desperation. …
Consider the lowly tardigrades. They neither toil nor spin. But in "Circuscope," these tiny, water-dwelling creatures come into glorious focus through artists who spin, dance, juggle, drum, …
Amy Timberlake's "One Came Home" has a distinct whiff of "True Grit" in its bones, with a dash of Ian McEwan's "Atonement." But in Lifeline Theatre's world premiere adaptation by Jessica Wri…
The title of Madhuri Shekar's family comedy, "A Nice Indian Boy," is a sly feint. On the surface, it appears that the nice Indian boy in question is Naveen Gavaskar, the soft-spoken only son…
Something unusual is happening onstage at Black Ensemble Theater: No one is singing.
Something unusual is happening onstage at Black Ensemble Theater: No one is singing. If you've always viewed the House That Jackie Taylor Built as the place to go for roof-raising musical bi…
