319 stories by "Robert Michael Oliver"
Make no mistake about it, Baltimore's Single Carrot Theatre has the edge. If you are looking for an intellectually challenging, experimental theatrical production, then P.O Box Unabom…
Writing about the end of the world is hard. Creating theatre about the end of the world is even harder. What must it be like facing that horrible, final stop in time? Quotidian Theat…
An Evening with General Ulysses S. Grant, written and performed by Storyteller "Country Joe" Rosier, has a disarming casualness about it. When Grant enters the small conference space at …
One-person shows are hard, for the performer and for the audience. For the performer, its difficulties are obvious: you are flying solo without a net or a parachute. For the audie…
Sam Shepard's Heartless is perhaps his best–and definitely his most mature–play, which is not to say it is his most accessible. For it is not. In fact, though th…
Very rarely does one get the opportunity to witness a completely meaningless piece of theatrics, and enjoy it. Usually, even the supposed meaningless has, unbeknownst to the producing ar…
Mark St. Germain's world premiere of Scott and Hem in the Garden of Allah is an emotionally taut, funny drama about two of America's most famous, and important, literary figures, F. Sc…
The 2011 Occupy Movement profoundly affected the American social landscape, forcing all but the most psychologically reactionary to acknowledge the impact of class on people's understanding …
Liz Duffy Adams's A Discourse on the Wonders of the Invisible World begins with a promising premise. Abigail Williams, the young girl whose visions of demons and witches initiated …
"Money money money Water water water" The great American poet Theodore Roethke penned those lines in his famous poem, The Lost Son. I couldn't help but remember the phrasing after experi…
We have now lived with the ubiquitousness of terrorism for more than a dozen years. During that time we have learned to hate the "terrorist" quite well. We have also learned to kill …
Of the 125 productions at this year's Capital Fringe Festival, 33 are solo performances. There are solo shows about dementia, about Robert F. Kennedy, about what happens when you just say "y…
If one ventures into Ten14's production of The Deadly Seven at the Warehouse, be forewarned. One will not so much be attending a theatre event in the strictest sense of the word, b…
To be sure, with a festival that has "Fringe" in the title, and with shows called Crime Buster Blast-Off 3000 and Disco Jesus and the Apostles of Funk and Ok Stupid's Secret Math Lab, no one…
In Webster "Fringe" means "a : something that is marginal, additional, or secondary to some activity, process, or subject <a fringe sport> b : a group with ma…
The end of the universe has never been so much fun. Isn't that, after all, what art is all about: turning even the most tragic of ends into a celebration of the human spirit? …
The Little Theatre of Alexandria produced its first play in 1935, only three years after Twentieth Century opened on Broadway, and a year after the hit show made it to Hollywood. E…
Spring must most definitely be in the air. For love is in the theatres.  For jealousy and torment are in the theatres. For The Guardsman is in the Kennedy Center, and it is …
To be sure, the fury that hurricane Katrina dumped on New Orleans in 2005 is worthy of a Greek moment"some have even suggested the storm was more: an epic expression of God's disdain. In…
