427 stories by "Kevin Greene"
Monday February 15 "In A Word" at Strawdog Theatre Company. A world premiere from celebrated playwright Lauren Yee following the success of “Samsara” at Victory Gardens. Through …
At times, "Estrella Cruz" resembles a collage, a junkyard of ideas that twine together lyrically. Playwright Charise Castro Smith has a sense of dramatic poetry. The playfulness of her langu…
RECOMMENDED If you're a progressive"or merely impatient"the wheels of change can feel like they belong to a covered wagon rather than a Tesla. We tend to view entrepreneurs as renegades to b…
RECOMMENDED "Welcome to Berlin," say several cast members to the young American writer arriving from Paris in search of his novel. The time is 1929 and Berlin is in the waning age of the Wei…
RECOMMENDED The ghosts in the Ohio River and the Blue Rose Strangler are omnipresent fears, if only in the imagination of the town of Rising Sun, Indiana. The Harper family, on the other han…
You have quite possibly already seen or heard of Neil LaBute’s “The Shape of Things,” a 2001 play that swiftly became the 2003 movie starring Rachel Weisz and Paul Rudd. Th…
RECOMMENDED Can anyone listen to the uprush of that first glorious phrase in “Der Rosenkavalier” without getting goose flesh? Without feeling a joy so intense it puts one's heart…
La Voix Humaine RECOMMENDED I don't think I was the only one who observed, immediately after the curtain went up Saturday night on the first of two operas at the Harris Theater, that it was …
RECOMMENDED Iggy Pop. Tom Waits. Two musicians whose only direct connection is Jim Jarmusch's cult classic "Coffee and Cigarettes." And yet they have plenty in common as icons of creativity …
"The Glass Menagerie" comes with its own set of built-in values. Mounting it is like renting a vintage sports car. It is a luxurious, time-tested play that is bound to garner attention wheth…
RECOMMENDED It’s hard to say anything about anything especially if you’re trying to say something without offending anyone. Taking aim at the media machine that filters out crazy…
RECOMMENDED A junk shop: an assemblage of bric-a-brac, objects not all broken but beyond their first use"typewriters, two-headed ceramic aliens and toasters as well as other kitsch and fixer…
RECOMMENDED There are two words that can make almost any regular theatergoer flinch: audience participation. The irony is unmistakable. In an art form that lives and dies on vulnerability, o…
RECOMMENDED Obese. Plus size. Thick. Heavy. Big boned. Curvy. Overweight. Fat. These are some of the politer words applied to people with bodies that don’t fit into our culture’s…
The late Horton Foote's "The Old Friends" is a play about people getting what they want. Whether jewels, booze or attention, any deprivation is fleeting. As a criticism of the privileged cla…
Waking up and turning on the news, we see the outrage over police killings and state terrorism of the black population. We do not see the mass media addressing the more insidious ways system…
RECOMMENDED As this sprightly new musical opens, Arthur Conan Doyle has just committed what his myriad readers see as the ultimate crime: killing off iconic super-sleuth Sherlock Holmes. "He…
If you ever wondered what "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" would look like as a Greek tragedy, this is your chance to find out. Set in post-housing bubble collapse California, Dan LeFran…
There were times during the world premiere of "Another Word for Beauty" that I had to remind myself where I was. Literally, not in the transcendent sense. This stilted and suffocatingly u…
Despite levying criticisms at both sides of the capitalist/socialist divide, Eugene O'Neill’s 1922 play "The Hairy Ape" teems with Marxist zeal. One wonders what O'Neill's anti-hero…
RECOMMENDED For some people it's about control. For others, simple pleasure. Many find it a chore though they'd rather not admit it. But we all do it. Even Republicans. Especially Republican…
It is high time we put the expression "boys will be boys" to bed. Those still needing good reason to retire this persistent slogan of blatantly gendered rationalization need look…
RECOMMENDED There has perhaps never been an artist better capable of expressing the eternal contradictions of hope and oppression than Nina Simone. From the deceptive jaunt of "Mississippi G…
By David Witter Richard Cotovsky is known as "The Godfather of Storefront Theater." It’s a well-deserved title. For the last thirty years, the artistic director of the Mary-Arrchie The…
Much of Griffin Theatre Company's “London Wall” works quite well: a story of female connection in the male-dominated workspaces of the West End, a sentimental heart and the fiery…
