704 stories by "Zach Freeman"
RECOMMENDED Let's begin by admitting that burlesque-type entertainment is not to everyone's taste. Then let's revisit the sage advice about trying everything twice to see if you like it, sin…
RECOMMENDED Wouldn't it be great if there were a book that provided all the dos and don'ts to loving the single life? Wouldn't it be nice to have a book about dating that everyone could read…
By Aaron Hunt With thirty-six Joseph Jefferson nominations and nine wins since Redtwist Theatre's first show in the Edgewater neighborhood opened in September 2003, it might seem that the co…
RECOMMENDED At the heart of City Lit's "Holmes and Watson" is the co-dependent relationship between the two titular characters. Holmes, to put it bluntly, can be a bit pedantic and his obses…
In a set of extremely brief vignettes, Rivendell Theatre Ensemble relates the experiences of American women in the armed forces through Megan Carney's new play "Women At War."Â Based on t…
If you are a fan of the golden-age of musicals, if you haven't been able to give up your LP of the original cast recording of "Camelot," with Julie Andrews's soaring soprano seeming to posse…
RECOMMENDED The question posited by Jeff Talbott's "The Submission" is one of ownership. Who owns a story? And, whose tale is it to tell? Danny (played by Nicholas Bailey) has written a play…
RECOMMENDED More than anything, I think I appreciated "Out of Disorder's" sequencing. The show is actually a pairing of two solo shows: "Hunger Pains" by Christopher L. Moore and "I'm Differ…
RECOMMENDED Someone at the money-making end of the performance rights for the Maury Yeston/Peter Stone musical "Titanic" has come up with more room in their pockets than seemed appropriate, …
RECOMMENDED There are those who may grouse at the remounting of the Rodgers & Hammerstein musicals that paved the way for J.R. Brown, Guettel and Sondhiem. But "South Pacific" won't go a…
The (figurative) curtain opens upon a tempest, as a boat off the Irish coast founders and sinks amid hysteria and confusion onshore. Sadly, that also describes Abby Spallen's 2009 play, whic…
RECOMMENDED Not all opera roles are created equal, and neither are all opera singers. But singers will be offered roles for which they might type physically, and may accept them for greater …
RECOMMENDED Director András Visky, in collaboration with designer Péter Szabó, roots this Samuel Beckett adaptation in our time and space through the visceral force of sound, design a…
RECOMMENDED Director Linda Fortunato and the cast of BoHo Theatre's production of "Parade" know that the game is to tell a story. The trial of Leo Frank, an inveterate miscarriage of justice…
Stephen Sondheim's long, lauded, and continuing career in the lyric theater has given opportunity for discovery as to his compositional demons, and the fire he uses to bully them into delive…
RECOMMENDED The setting starts out so lovely. You walk into Oracle's cozy little cabin of a space off of Broadway and you're greeted with what looks like a charming Tuscan villa. It's the ki…
RECOMMENDED Some of the most unsettling characters in horror films aren't the demonic phantasms or unkillable slashers, but the just-real-enough weirdos who inhabit the margins of the narrat…
RECOMMENDED "When you're real, you don't mind being hurt.” This central theme permeates an affable and vibrant staging of Margery Williams' timeless book "The Velveteen Rabbit," which …
RECOMMENDED There is something significant about the prolific writer George Orwell using stories as his vehicle for political action. Orwell, who fought in the Spanish Civil War and suffered…
RECOMMENDED It was a happy coincidence that I happened to catch Theatre de la Ville's "Ionesco Suite" within a day of seeing Strawdog Theatre's production of "Fail/Safe." Both shows traffic …
By Hugh Iglarsh If any one play embodies Theater of the Absurd, it's Samuel Beckett's "Happy Days," in which protagonist Winnie chatters away through Act I while buried above her waist in, w…
RECOMMENDED It's been said that life can be more hilarious than fiction. So, what happens when someone has a stroke, their spouse loses their job, and both husband and wife are faced with en…
RECOMMENDED "Etta James. Etta James. I love me some Etta James!" The fabulous Ms. Real (played by the equally fabulous Ruben D. Echoles) proclaims that message more than once throughout Jack…
There was a moment in Akvavit Theatre's US Premiere of "The Frozen on the Square (1982)" when the lonely extras that populate the action were staring out into the black nothingness of…
I don't know what New York City did to Theresa Rebeck to piss her off so mightily, but whatever it was she seems to have really taken it to heart. Of course, that's not quite true. I do know…
