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The production of Portraits of Grrrls felt like I walked into a high school guidance counselor's activity. This should not diminish the discussions, content, importance, and impact thi…
A man wanders onstage, a mad look above his riotous beard. Another man comes on, petrified with fear, not seeing the disturbing maniac. With lightning speed, the bearded man pounces and …
Lakeboat was thought controversial when it debuted 40 years ago, but now it seems almost quaint, verging on classy. The very first script by David Mamet, it features many of the hallmarks…
With P.I.C. : The Prison Industrial Complex, the Conciliation Project hits the cruelty of the American criminal justice system hard with just about everything they can throw at it: Scores…
What would have happened if Lee Harvey Oswald's assassination had failed " but the danger wasn't over? Lancer and Lace pulls on this historical thread and weaves an interesting yet …
"Torture numbers," author Gregg Easterbrook once wrote, "and they'll confess to anything." David S. Kessler, a masterful storyteller aided by onstage musicians and projections in his new sho…
A marketing company might have taken The Coil Project's The Changeling Child and instead titled it A Midsummer Night's Dream " The Next Generation. That title better conveys the…
By Amanda Brenner There are no absolutes in Proper Care of the Peace Lily. In this 100 minute performance, everything exists in relation: analogies, power differentials, and those actual fam…
You probably know Orson Welles for Citizen Kane and War of the Worlds, but did you know he was also an accomplished magician? In Orson the Magnificent, consummate showman L…
A play about gun control, mental health, Robert Kennedy, and the Umpqua Community College shooting that forms a cohesive message without hitting the audience over the head with an anvi…
Like storytime for adults, David W. Grant sits in a modern version of a wingback chair in the small space at the Pursuit Wine Bar, sipping a Negroni while regaling us with true tales from hi…
Nazi Germany, South African apartheid, any city USA circa Black Lives Matter, pre-civil rights era America, Batista regime in Cuba, Cochabamba in Bolivia, Syrian uprising, 1984, even Jews in…
There are surprisingly few one-actor musicals. Even rarer: solo musicals where the protagonist juggles razor-sharp daggers. Make your one-actor, dagger-juggling musical about a lesbian circu…
A choose-your-own-adventure review " pick one of the following: a) I have little or no idea what the Burning Man festival is; b) I know about Burning Man, but have never been; c) I am a Burn…
Mia Amado, producer and director of Echoes, brings this piece about love and mental illness to the Eastman Theatre at Gallaudet. Echoes is by no means an easy play, in terms of e…
This show is a comedy inspired by a tragedy, Greek playwright Euripides'Â The Bacchae. In case it has been a while since you last refreshed your memory on the theatrical offerings of Greec…
Satire is a noble pursuit, but it can also be used as an excuse. Regardless of what a would-be satirist puts onstage, if you dislike it, he can say that your negative reaction is the point. …
If you've ever picked up a roommate from an online ad, you know that living with strangers can be, well, strange. In a world premiere from outer space-oriented Nu Puppis collective, that str…
Though her name is no longer on the lips of an adoring public, during the height of silent film and then early talkies, Clara Bow was The It Girl, the very personification of the carefree fl…
Not the first, not the second, but the third Joe Charnitski is here from New York to share his story of three lives, two eulogies, and getting out of a small town. Witty, humble, and invitin…
Penny Sterling has seen a lot of hardship: abuse, addiction, assault, and fifty years spent trying to live as a man. Her perspective as a trans woman, a mother, and an alcoholic all build in…
An hour of music"wonderfully moody ballads, bluesy numbers, and almost twangy folk songs"is always an hour well spent. Even if that music largely focuses on supernatural themes. Monsters to …
At this point, there's an entire genre of books, TV shows, and films about bad bosses and the bizarre vagaries of corporate workplaces. One of the perhaps lesser-known but extremely effectiv…
Kukui Kikuyu Productions' Passing " A Stage Play is a fascinating psychological character study in which secrets revealed inevitably lead to a shockingly tragic end which deserves a lo…
What is truth? It's a big question to explore in 50 minutes, but Agora Dance's The Kind of Thing That Would Happen attempts to do exactly that. The result is a beautifully executed,…
