145 stories by "Michael Poandl"
The original and timely "Sketches!" is a well-built comedy machine that
will have you laughing uproariously into your mask.
The Magnetic Theatre resumes live, indoor performances with this modern
telling of the Persephone myth.
After a long pandemic winter, the Magnetic's outdoor theater show,
"something i cared about," feels authentic and radical.
TheSharedScreen's scorching new Zoom production of Tape " the 1999 play turned 2001 indie film starring Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman " is a successful experiment in embracing the present virt…
Ryan J. Haddad's incredible one-person show, Hi, Are You Single?, is the first time any performer has set foot on the Woolly Mammoth stage since March 2020. This gem of a show, presented by …
This one-woman show about a nun during a worldwide pandemic really deserves
your full attention. It definitely touches a nerve.
Musical duo Cookie Tongue combine their songs with a variety of mediums,
and if you abandon yourself to the chaos, it's really quite beautiful.
A fascinating retelling of the last witch burning in Ireland takes on
additional meaning in the COVID era..
Brian Feldman's immersive solo Zoom performance fully embraces the digital
medium.
The musical adaptation of the 1982 B-movie is creative, engaging, weird,
and more than a little grotesque.
There were a number of factors that led Solas Nua, the 15-year-old theater company dedicated to presenting contemporary Irish arts, to abandon their previous project, Being Here, and devise …
Siobhan O'Loughlin is the artist who, thus far, has come closest to
creating an intimate virtual theatrical experience.
Siobhan O'Loughlin is no stranger to unconventional performing arts spaces. For the past few years, her theaters have been neither proscenium nor black box. Instead, the venue for her intera…
Note: Your critic apologizes for his tardy publication of this ongoing Homebound series. Being homebound himself, he fell into a deep comatose state after consuming every piece of food in hi…
Borders, a play by Nimrod Danishman, tells the story of two young men"Boaz (Eli Schoenfeld), an Israeli, and George (Adrian Rifat), who is Lebanese"who meet on Grindr and fall in love despit…
Local playwright Peter Lundblad's world premiere is like hanging out with a
smart friend who makes you feel a little smarter, too.
With Dinner Bell, Taproot taps into the duality of the South: honey-sweet
hospitality coupled with hypocrisy. Plus: Visits to Centrifuge and
Monsters Under the Bed.
The beloved, annual vaudeville-style holiday sketch show comes to a
glorious end after a 10-year run.
The English/Hebrew romantic comedy is a satisfying little stocking stuffer.
RANDY BAKER, Playwright Michael: Introduce yourself, Rorschach, and the play Forgotten Kingdoms in under 140 characters. Go! No, just kidding…just tell us something about yourself and abou…
This review comes after I saw the final performance of Venus Theatre's remarkable, inspiring, supremely artistic vision: Selections From: The Methuen Drama Books of Suffrage Plays. But in my…
Intelligence, the new play at Arena Stage about the Valerie Plame CIA scandal, comes at a very timely moment in politics. As Donald Trump appears increasingly clownish, the presidency of Geo…
At first consideration, there doesn't seem to be anything particularly Chekhovian about Mario, the iconic red capped plumber whose mustachioed visage has been imprinted on the mind of every …
There is so much than can be talked about when it comes to Suzan-Lori Parks' 2000 riff on The Scarlet Letter, the half-jokingly entitled Fucking A. There is the unsettling setting, the surpr…
A sampling of the audio from the packed house should serve as ample description for Ford's Theatre's stunning new production of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: raucous laught…
