Fifty years after the start of the Occupation, power and privilege continue to rule the world. Instead of building relationships, we build walls, providing a false promise of security paid f…
Come From Away Wins Big at Toronto Theatre Critics Awards
Broadway's sleeper hit musical Come From Away, currently nominated for seven Tony Awards, took home top prizes at the Toronto Th…
You might be tempted to dismiss Ulysses on Bottles as a niche-appeal "issue play," but this first opening for Mosaic Theater since receiving the Outstanding Emerging Theater Company Aw…
This summer will mark the 50th anniversary of the Ridiculous Theatrical Company. Our most avid readers know this is a subject near and dear to my heart. I have blogged previously about the c…
Near the beginning of this transporting play, the actor Sarah Marshall, wearing a man-tailored white suit, unrolls a map of Gaza and lays it on the floor. She then dumps onto it 150 tiny …
Last night, Gilad Evron’s Ulysses on Bottles opened the Mosaic Theater Company’s 2017 Voices From a Changing Middle East Festival. Described as an allegory, Evron’s Ulysses…
Annapolis Shakespeare Company's production of Richard III is a darkly compelling piece of theater. Directed by Donald Hicken, it strips the stage of all but a few props, allowing great actin…
Meet The Love Show, which fuses multiple performance genres including cabaret, burlesque, circus, and various dance forms into unique theatrical experiences.
When Paige Price took the helm of a floundering Philadelphia Theatre Company, she steered off course and toward safer financial waters. But will that keep the company afloat? A.D. Amorosi co…
The MNM production of Monty Python's Spamalot is silly and stupid.
Thank goodness. This edition of one of the funniest musicals of the past couple of decades revels in, savors, exults, wal…
All but one of Zall's works were solos and all were based on famous literary figures: "George Sand" (ruminating on her lost love, Chopin), "Mary Tyrone" (from "Long Day's Journey Into Night…
In a simple bold setting, a man in a hurry is running late. He is answering his phone, head skewed at an angle to balance between shoulder and cheek. At the same time, he handles a slim file…
Just over 10 years ago, Refuge Dance Company Founder Katherine Gant was new to the dance scene in Atlanta, Georgia. Everywhere she went, she met dancers like herself who were unable to find …
Joe in Michael Milligan’s one-man show Mercy Killers is, indeed, your average Joe: he listens to Rush Limbaugh, he works on cars as a mechanic, he has no college degree, and (yes) he p…
It seems counter-intuitive that a play about a missing fourteen-year-old boy could be in any way funny or uplifting, but The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey, written and performed b…
Every now and then it’s refreshing to turn on the time travel clock and return to what we then called “civilization” circa 1920. You know, after the war to end all wars, be…
… all the world's a vanity fair … This is a mind-expanding production of Vanity Fair. It's also funny, extravagant and visually fascinating. The play, like the novel, focuses on …