MISGUIDED MELODRAMA Billy Wilder's 1950 film masterpiece Sunset Boulevard starred Gloria Swanson as the washed-up-actress-turned-cougar Norma Desmond, and William Holden as her prematurely-j…
FOGGY BUT FASCINATING Neva by Guillermo Calderón opens like a Beckett play, with a woman sitting alone in the darkness. Once she is illuminated, she begins to speak with the pace and …
MADCAP MIDSUMMER To say that Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream is oft-produced would be an understatement. The 1595 text is very much in the public domain, free and available to an…
A CAT IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a tricky play even before it leaves the page. Nearly sixty years after its first performance, Williams' brilliant poetic language and th…
A DARK, RIVETING AND WORTHY TRIP TO THE FOREST An undeservedly small house took in Friday's performance of Caryl Churchill's brilliant, unsettling Mad Forest. Commissioned in 1990 in res…
WOODY LIGHT One iconic comic writer; eight monologues cut from the screen time of seven of his most memorable female characters; a six-person, all male cast: Those are the ingredients of Roy…
FRINGE-O-SAUR Winner of the Best Musical title at the 2010 FringeNYC, with music by Marshall Pailet and book by Pailet, Bryce Norbitz and Steve Wargo, Triassic Parq: The Musical is a parody …
THE COLORS OF OUR LIVES red, black & GREEN: a blues is art at its best and most purposeful; a visceral, engaging narrative that combines theatre, dance, music, spoken word and visual art…
A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY Faith by Evelina Fernandez, directed by Jose Luis Valenzuela, is a sensitive portrayal of a Mexican-American family in the 1940's. Good performances and a smart use of …
SEMINAR SEARCHES FOR MEANING The premise: four fiction writers have paid five thousand dollars each to participate in an exclusive seminar with a renowned teacher. Filled with witty wordplay…
“YOUNG. SEXY. NEW. AND FULL OF LIFE.” Gob Squad's Kitchen, playing at REDCAT through Sunday, is an exquisite, provocative piece of experimental, experiential theatre. The perform…
"WHATEVER YOU DO, DON'T ASK WHAT THIS SHOW WAS ABOUT" Natalie Portman, The Musical! is a two-hour, no-intermission sketch-comedy musical written and directed by Brittany Garms, with music by…