275 stories by "Nina Metz"
To hear Peter Kim describe his parents' courtship (funny, intricate, delirious) and their subsequent marriage (brutal and violent) is to witness a master storyteller at work. Full of detail …
"I'm not talking Vlasics, but somebody was in a pickle!" There are a handful of wonderfully bad zingers in this film noir spoof " too few, I'd say. They come from the mouth of Rick Larkin (J…
In comedy, rhythm's the thing. Without it, you might as well be on the receiving end of a limp handshake. That's the big sticking point in this production from Saint Sebastian Players, altho…
I'm not sure this comedy about fan fiction devotees fully works, but there is a lot to recommend in this Strange Bedfellows production.
Picture someone online, alone late at night, with only a blueish glow from the screen for company. All the world is asleep, it seems, except this person, pecking away at the keyboard, hoping…
Picture someone online, alone late at night, with only a blueish glow from the screen for company. All the world is asleep, it seems, except for this person, pecking away at the keyboard, ho…
"They keep waking me up!"
"They keep waking me up!"
It begins with an audience suggestion, as most improv shows do. Asked to name an unusual fear, someone calls out "sinking ships," resulting in a screwy nautical-themed (mostly) cohesive thri…
It begins with an audience suggestion, as most improv shows do. Asked to name an unusual fear, someone calls out "sinking ships," resulting in a screwy nautical-themed (mostly) cohesive thri…
"Well, you know what they say," a guy observes in Douglas Maxwell's story of three childhood pals, "you can choose your friends, but you can't choose your family."
Much as I like the ambitions behind Tympanic Theatre Company's project, I'm not sure any of it works. A collection of short plays by 12 writers, each tackling a track from Radiohead's 1997 a…
"I was wondering why I'm so hooked on sugar, and I remembered an incident that occurred when I was about 5 years old," Katie Nixon says in her new sketch show. At Bible school, they were ser…
It took only a few short years for the Internet to upend our definition of the media. Traditional publications like this very newspaper jostle for attention alongside hundreds of tweets and …
Christopher Shinn's drama isn't a cohesive story so much as a series of conversations and negotiations. Sex is on the table for two different couples, but no one in either scenario walks awa…
"There's a lot of weird stuff online and we're here to make fun of all of it," reads the description for this show on Under the Gun Theater's website. "Each week a panel of distinguished gue…
Though it starts out as a wry comedy about college keggers and hookups, this spiky drama from Paul Downs Calaizzo turns into something quite different by the end. Who did what " and why " is…
"There's a lot of weird stuff online and we're here to make fun of all of it," reads the description for this show on Under the Gun Theater's website. "Each week a panel of distinguished gue…
The movie of the moment "American Sniper" is, above all else, sober in tone and intent " "and don't you forget it," the film all but implores. Steve J. Spencer's "Push Button Murder," in a w…
The movie of the moment "American Sniper" is, above all else, sober in tone and intent " and don't you forget it, the film all but implores. Steve J. Spencer's "Push Button Murder," in a wor…
Both a lampoon of late-night talk shows and a sincere (if twisted) homage to form, the show devised by Kevin Knickerbocker and Nick Mestad for Tuesday nights at iO feels like they're picking…
Both a lampoon of late-night talk shows and a sincere (if twisted) homage to form, the show devised by Kevin Knickerbocker and Nick Mestad for their Tuesday night slot at iO feels like they'…
The press materials peg playwright Erin Courtney's drama as a "hauntingly romantic play with a mystery at its center," a mischaracterization as baffling as it is just plain wrong.
I'm a sucker for plays that plunge into the world of academic infighting, teeing up on the exploits of the overeducated when they are reduced to turf wars, ego-baiting and petty grievances.
Jason R. Chin, a longtime improv performer, director and instructor at iO Theater, was reported dead late Thursday. He was 46.
