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Even though the director, Rebecca Frecknall, honors most of the play's dialogue, Blanche's heartbreaking confession scene with Mitch (Dwane Walcott), her suitor, revealing the sad roots of h…
While there are plenty of laughs in "The Great Privation," we never lose sight of the fact the subject matter has roots in the history of medical exploitation. Previous mainstream pieces hav…
It is essential for the audience to become fully engaged with the story and to care about the characters. When that does not happen, the show falls flat. While Homeyer and McGrath make an ef…
The play moves by unexpected twists and turns which are both amusing and engrossing. We never do find out for certain if Dina is a spy or not. However, she does tell Boubs that she was stati…
"Wounded," written by Jiggs Burgess, is a story using a cloak of humor to obscure the pain and dark feelings being hidden by the protagonists. Although referred to as a comedy or dark comedy…
Despite its predictable overarching plot, "Sumo," produced jointly by the Ma-Yi Theater Company and La Jolla Playhouse, is never boring. Partly, that's because, as Mitsuo, Shih is villainous…
So much of "Talking with Angels" is taken up by the rantings of these otherworldly emenations, which are filled increasingly by cryptic, impenetrable spoutings referencing religious imagery,…
Anna Capunay has attempted to write a family drama in order to influence people to try alternatives to chemo and radiation. Unfortunately, in using her own family story, she has not thought …
"Avalona, A Musical Legend," created by Dina Fanai, with music and lyrics, is a concept album with elements of modern opera. While not a musical in the usual sense of that form, it fits in a…
While the characters do not change much, they roll through the years dealing with the various crises with various levels of success. However, the play is peppered with one liners and zingers…
"Tango After Dark" came across as more of a slick cabaret act, albeit one that was performed and staged with professional polish. The dramatically focused lighting by original designer C…
The play's title, "Georgia and the Butch," is fitting. Only O'Keefe is named, while Maria Chabot is simply "the butch," reflecting both how she devoted herself to O'Keefe completely (to the …
The author complicates the issue by bringing in autism (Margot) and Alzheimer's (the unseen father of Adam 2 and Eve 2.) When asked if she would want her autism cured, Margot answers: "I mig…
"Exiles" has a complicated history: it was published before it was produced, and was rejected by theaters in the UK and Ireland, most notably by W.B. Yeats on behalf on the Abbey Theatre in …
Urban Stages conducted a Dynamic Duos playwriting competition for one-act, two-character stories covering any subject during their 2023-24 season. Eight plays out of over three hundred submi…
Elliott has directed too realistically, turning "Curse" into a sad melodrama, minus the magic. Maybe Shepard's odd take on rural goings-on had more of a shocking appeal to sophisticated …
"Grangeville" ultimately revolves around the fragile, strained bond of brotherhood"or, more accurately, half-brotherhood"and both actors excel in capturing the tender nuances of this dynamic…
Arthur Miller has always been our major playwright of moral ambiguity, never more so than in his 1968 drama "The Price," now receiving its first Off Broadway revival. The metaphoric title re…
While Dickson's production is elegant and pitch-perfect for its 1914 era, the characterizations are partly satiric and off base. While Daniel Marconi is fine as the designing, unprincipled a…
Bess Wohl's latest play is the ambitious and engrossing "Liberation," her attempt to investigate the roots of the Women's Liberation Movement back in the 1970s from a decidedly contemporary …
With the same preternatural gusto she brought to "Wicked" and "If/Then," Idina Menzel is back on Broadway in "Redwood" to, once again, confront musicalized trauma, this time as Jesse, a midd…
"Safe House" is an amorphous mosaic of sight and sound just out of reach of being any one thing. It is at once a song cycle, memory play, comedy, tragedy, a visual and aural potpourri of sen…
Featuring ballet great and former American Ballet Theatre star, Herman Cornejo in the leading role, "Anima Animal" was choreographed by Anabella Tuliano on Cornejo's ballet concert group fro…
"Lynchtown" (1936), probably Weidman's best known work, is an indictment of lawlessness and group anarchy. It is one section of a three-part work called "Atavisms." Members of the Sokolow Th…
The world premiere of Philip W. Chung's My Man Kono tells the fascinating but little known true story of Toraichi Kono, chauffeur, valet and private secretary to Charlie Chaplin, who was cau…
