Review: Trainspotting USA/Theatre Wit by Lisa Buscani

Irvine Welsh's popular tour of heroin addiction's seamy landscape has moved from Edinburgh, Scotland to Kansas City. Welsh's original text presented a downtrodden group of Scots escaping a m…

SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 5:00am on October 21, 2012☆⚑

Review: Black n Blue Boys/Broken Men/Goodman Theatre by Lisa Buscani

RECOMMENDED The pressures of masculinity require that its terrors go unspoken; young men and boys often negotiate violent worlds without help or outlet. Solo writer/performer Dael Orlandersm…

SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 3:42pm on October 8, 2012☆⚑

Review: Equivocation/Victory Gardens Theater by Lisa Buscani

RECOMMENDED Remember, remember the fifth of November, gunpowder, treason and plot… So begins the rhyme that commemorates the central event of Bill Cain's immensely entertaining ode …

SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 11:01am on September 25, 2012☆⚑

Review: Good People/Steppenwolf Theatre by Lisa Buscani

RECOMMENDED Margaret (Mariann Mayberry), a local from working-class South Boston, loses her job at the dollar store and reaches out to ex-flame and successful doctor Mike (Keith Kupferer) fo…

SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 9:50am on September 24, 2012☆⚑

Review: Geography of a Horse Dreamer/Mary-Arrchie Theatre by Lisa Buscani

RECOMMENDED Gangsters Santee (Mark Vallarta) and Beaujo (Rudy Galvan) stand guard over Cody (Gavin Robinson), who's capable of dreaming horse-race winners. Problem is, he's in a slump. But w…

SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 1:54pm on September 23, 2012☆⚑

Review: The Skriker/Red Tape Theatre by Lisa Buscani

RECOMMENDED Caryl Churchill made her name exploring the politics of sex and gender. In "The Skriker," she folds post-natal psychoses and fairytales into the mix for a hard watch that's tough…

SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 10:30am on September 18, 2012☆⚑

Review: Wrong Mountain/Rare Terra Theatre by Lisa Buscani

Emerson once said, "I hate quotations. Tell me what you know." Someone needs to tell playwright David Hirson; his attempt to dramatize artistic struggle sounds like an over-long reading from…

SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 6:00pm on September 16, 2012☆⚑

Review: Illegal Use of Hands/American Blues Theater by Lisa Buscani

Has-been football players Roy (Howie Johnson) and Cody (Steve Key), find themselves outside Wallace's (Dennis Zacek) house when Roy's POS Chevy breaks down. Roy is convinced Wallace is the r…

SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 11:16am on September 8, 2012☆⚑

Review: Cymbeline/The RIFF Collective by Lisa Buscani

RECOMMENDED Outdoor theater is fun but has its drawbacks; the most talented ensemble  fights for its life against ambient distraction. "Ah fair Imogen, my life, my wife… THIS IS THE ROU…

SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 3:00pm on September 3, 2012☆⚑

Review: pool (no water)/Vitalist Theatre by Lisa Buscani

RECOMMENDED The bohemian world rejects mainstream competition and greed, devoting itself to truth, beauty, freedom and love. And anybody who believes that has never tried to make a living se…

SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 4:00pm on August 27, 2012☆⚑

Review: Savage Land/Nothing Special Productions by Lisa Buscani

No community has a monopoly on savagery; every population shows a disregard for human decency from time to time. Josh Nordmark's new offering attempts to examine civilization's failures and …

SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 8:05pm on August 7, 2012☆⚑

Review: Ah, Wilderness!/Eclipse Theatre Company by Lisa Buscani

In his only "comedy," Eugene O'Neill charts a family's moral struggle in 1906 Connecticut.  As it's an O'Neill play, there's a hefty helping of lost love and dreams deferred served along …

SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 7:37pm on July 30, 2012☆⚑