37 stories by "Steve Hallex"
Most of the attention in a theatre review usually goes to the actors and the strong eleven person cast of Young Robin Hood certainly deserves praise. Yet the success of this world premie…
The Brontes is not a play for lovers of 19th-century literature. In fact, some of this crowd will be offended by this irreverent production from Dizzy Miss Lizzie's Roadside Revue. But t…
If I were to tell you that young couples once danced nearly to the point of death, staying in motion for forty-five minutes every hour around the clock for sometimes 4,000 hours straight for…
The Bedroom is by the far the worst venue I have yet to view a play in. The low ceilings provide for terrible sightlines, especially for those not in the first few rows. This also cr…
Viewing Pointless Theatre's Imagination Meltdown Adventure is like looking at a bowl of half-melted ice cream: what you see is runny, messy, and almost formless. But then you think "what…
Actor Meshaun Labrone is an experienced actor who has played a number of Shakespeare's most famous characters, including the title role in Richard III. It shows throughout in his one man…
The Cloudism Project from Borealis Theatre seeks to create an "atmosphere" for a unique interactive experience. What we get is a clever, but in fact, conventional play. Perhaps this was …
Most "adult" plays are meant as biodegradable entertainment; few, if any offer as many ponderable themes as Maurice Martin's R.U.X.. Just before the show, by chance I ran into Martin in …
Someday, Jace Casey (actor, writer, director, choreographer, composer, choreographer, music director, arranger) is going to spend a slow afternoon going over the production notes and artwork…
The Last Flapper ends when Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald leaves the building.  Oh, I'm not giving away anything: she left it many years before the play began. The "jazz age" author/ d…
Once upon a time, there was a lonely critic. Never mind where he lived, nor care whether he was tall or handsome, though he certainly was not rich. One day, this lonely critic went t…
Russian playwright Ivan Vyrypaev, whose play Oxygen is being produced by Taffety Punk, is a proponent of the experimental school of New Drama where plot and character are no longer the basis…
Don't take this the wrong way, but Hamlet has always been difficult for me. Yeah, there are more than a few who say it's Shakespeare's greatest play (though the older you get, the more y…
Producer/ stars Allyson Harkey and Karen Lange, in their newest production for Pinky Swear"Marisa Wegryzn's Killing Women" present a play about the big women's issues of our day. In part…
Who knew there was such a lode of priceless, unheralded Eugene O' Neill material out there, and just under our noses? The New York Neo-Futurists found it by digging in a place some of us…
Artistic director Caren Hearne was all bubbles and shine as she introduced Studio 3 Theatre for Young Audiences' production of Lizzie Allen's Home to a Saturday afternoon crowd at the Workho…
On Friday, March 16th, a company called Tattooed Potato showed its first public face at Flashpoint. Although they are not there yet, this group could easily evolve into yet another iconi…
I want you to imagine it is 1927; the week after Christmas. You have bought your tickets, and now your chilly bones sit in a dark corner of Florenz Ziegfeld's Theater in New York. Th…
If you think furs, Fabergé eggs, ballet when you think about 20th century Russia, Les Justes is here to remind you that for every lithographed Russian noblewoman traipsing around St. Peters…
Welcome to winter wonderland, presented by 1st Stage. If you’ve been to this theater, things will seem a little different this time. The arena-like seating is curtained off for…
Landless Theatre is at it again. Yes, the company that brings you inane post-modern theatre, has hit another one: Devil Boys from Beyond, premiering this February, and though it's a trip…
This Saturday, I attended DCTS' annual party at a lovely Thai restaurant near DuPont Circle. I must say that every moment was enjoyable, but the party really started with Tim Treanor's t…
If you like comedy that makes you smile as well as laugh you can't do much better than 1st Stage's presentation of Miklós László's Parfumerie. Audiences on this side of the worl…
"Take a typical show at the old Globe, kick out the wine merchants and vassals who paid subscriptions and leave only the groundlings, and you'll get the audience Apron Theatre Company Artist…
- This play will probably always be part of the dramatic canon, because it tells a story that seems to repeat itself as often as summer rain. From Socrates to Christ, to Jan Hus, to Drey…
