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Monday, September 23, 2013

Review: The Old Man and the Old Moon/PigPen Theatre Co. at Writers Theatre by Monica Westin

RECOMMENDED “The Old Man and the Old Moon” is a studied, artful exercise in whimsy and innocence that’s as successful as they come, if you like that sort of thing. This is …

SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 12:20PM
Monday, September 9, 2013

Review: The Balcony/Trap Door Theatre by Monica Westin

RECOMMENDED “The Balcony” opens in an upscale whorehouse where clients act out absurd and sometimes violent power fantasies (a Judge, a Bishop, a General) as outside a real revolution ra…

SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 12:28PM
Monday, February 18, 2013

Review: Counterfeiters/Dog & Pony Theatre Company by Monica Westin

Dog & Pony’s vaudeville send-up about the various forgeries large and small that underlie the American dream makes for outstanding individual cabaret scenes, but “Counterfeiters…

SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 04:15PM
Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Just IN>TIME: Performance Festival Comes Into Its Own by Monica Westin

“The biggest surprise is how much it’s running on its own,” muses Mark Jeffery, performance/installation artist, SAIC professor and curator of a sprawling and ambitious multi-venue per…

SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:00AM
Monday, July 30, 2012

Review: Smartphones/Trap Door by Monica Westin

Smart phones, dumb exchanges: the conceit of Emilio Williams’ play, that new media technology, particularly “telepresent” interfaces, degrades the quality of real-world social interact…

SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:24PM
Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Review: The Dumb Waiter/ TUTA by Monica Westin

RECOMMENDED TUTA’s execution of Pinter’s fraught and deeply unsettling play about two hit men waiting for a job in an anonymous room is deeply astute, restrained and powerful. Fo…

SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 01:00PM

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