Wednesday, May 15, 2013
If the actors in a play ever exit the stage and invite you to leave, maybe you should. Red Tape Theatre’s “Lear” is a pseudo-sequel to Shakespeare’s “King Lear,” though audi…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 04:51PMSaturday, May 11, 2013
“The Football Play” at the Den Theatre is like when your attention-deprived five-year-old wants to put on a show in the living room. It’s incoherent and overloaded with mis…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 06:25PMTuesday, May 7, 2013
RECOMMENDED People who live in the kind of twisted families only Tennessee Williams could write must look at Neil Simon families and think, “well, that sounds nice.” While neither type o…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 06:35PMMonday, April 15, 2013
RECOMMENDED Strindberg and romantic comedy might sound like a strange combination, but in the case of “Creditors” at Remy Bumppo it’s incredibly satisfying. Closing out their season wi…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 01:49PMSunday, April 14, 2013
When a chance meeting in a bar turns into an emotional landslide, it’s often called a one-night stand, or dating. In John Patrick Shanley’s one-act play “Danny and the Deep Blue Sea,�…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 06:02PMMonday, March 25, 2013
RECOMMENDED Tennesee Williams had a real gift for portraying vacation towns as sad rest homes instead of the glamorous retreats we like to imagine them. When ”The Night of the Iguana…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 02:35PMSunday, March 24, 2013
RECOMMENDED Unfortunately, not all romantic ghost stories include erotic pottery and unchained melodies. In Noël Coward’s supernatural play “Blithe Spirit,” novelist Charles Condomine…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:25PMSunday, March 17, 2013
RECOMMENDED The best way to come at “Analog” at the Neo-Futurists is just by going with it. Rooted in its own eccentricities, company member Kurt Chiang’s play is a first-p…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:34PMTuesday, March 5, 2013
RECOMMENDED When the first line of a play is “motherfucker,” you know you’re probably in for a good time. “Brewed” is a bizarre female-centric new play by local…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 01:30PMMonday, March 4, 2013
RECOMMENDED Long before there were fifty shades of anything, a little book called “Peyton Place” unbuttoned a generation of American readers in the late fifties. “Peyton Place” by Gr…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 10:48AMWednesday, February 27, 2013
RECOMMENDED All good drama has one thing in common and that is story. Jonathan Safran Foer’s 2002 novel “Everything is Illuminated” made for a mostly seamless transition to the stage a…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 04:08PMMonday, February 25, 2013
A principal consideration when adapting a novel for the stage is why does this story need to be told in this format? Lifeline Theatre ensemble member Christopher M. Walsh wrote this all-new …
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 01:06PMMonday, January 28, 2013
RECOMMENDED “Why don’t men kiss their wives?” asks a playful stranger in British playwright Lucinda Coxon’s “Happy Now?” This complicated play aims to ans…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 01:40PMFriday, January 11, 2013
RECOMMENDED If you’re familiar with the beloved musical “My Fair Lady,” you’ll need no introduction to the BoHo Theatre and Stage Left Theatre collaboration on Shaw’s ̶…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 06:08PMMonday, December 24, 2012
RECOMMENDED Consider yourself at home with Light Opera Works’ short-run production of “Oliver.” Disguised as community theater, “Oliver” is every bit up to the …
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 12:31PMWednesday, December 19, 2012
RECOMMENDED When we think of Charles Dickens, often we only remember Ebenezer Scrooge’s life-affirming nocturnal journey, or SparkNoting “Great Expectations” in high school…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 12:45PMMonday, December 3, 2012
RECOMMENDED Twenty years ago, a relatively unknown David Sedaris burst onto the NPR scene with a first-hand account of working as a Macy’s elf. The rest, as they say, is history. Joe Mante…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 02:33PMSunday, December 2, 2012
RECOMMENDED Borrowed from its own script, “it’s a blessing to be satisfied with so little” is an excellent way of describing “The Letters” at Writer’s The…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 11:21PMThursday, November 29, 2012
RECOMMENDED It’s probably blasphemy to suggest that American Theater Company’s radio rendition of this holiday tale is better than the iconic Frank Capra film, but’s certainly …
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 01:00PM 
