Annex’s “Precious Little” Offers A Lot
What’s that ape doing in the theatre? With a couple recent exceptions (the recent off-Broadway musical King Kong, the anticipated … Continue reading Annex’s “Precious Little” Offers A Lot
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ACT’s “Rapture, Blister, Burn” Tries to Have It All
The female WASP and her marital and gender-oriented struggles are the grist that is ground in ACT’s production of Rapture, Blister, Burn (through August 11). Playwright Gina Gionfriddo has enough self-awareness to out her subject demographic, but the problems of the privileged are as familiar as they are suspect. Continue reading ACT’s “Rapture, Blister, Burn” Tries to Have It All
Act 1, Scene 1: A One-Act Play Festival Begins
Tonight through Saturday, June 15, is the run of the inaugural Sandbox One-Act Play Festival (at Erickson Theatre Off Broadway; tickets), presenting, as promised, four one-acts from playwrights Scot Augustson, Emily Conbere, Elizabeth Heffron, and Paul Mullin. Continue reading Act 1, Scene 1: A One-Act Play Festival Begins
A Tell-All Memoirist Comes Home in “Other Desert Cities” at ACT
The familiar give and take of family secrets and threatened revelations gets a Hollywood shine and sociopolitical update in ACT’s production of Jon Robin Baitz’s Other Desert Cities (through June 30). Hamstrung by an under-rehearsed cast and a weak-jointed plot, the show still provides an amusing, if sentimental, evening of entertainment. Continue reading A Tell-All Memoirist Comes Home in “Other Desert Cities” at ACT
On the Attraction of “Tall Skinny Cruel Cruel Boys” at Washington Ensemble
In fairness to Brandy, she does have this giant red claw who lives under her bed and has given her a fiery rash, a would-be clown collaborator named Reverb (Scott Ward Abernethy) to deal with, and frisky father of bratty Albert (Billy Gleeson) following her and her gambling problem around Atlantic City. Continue reading On the Attraction of “Tall Skinny Cruel Cruel Boys” at Washington Ensemble
Get Your Baba Yaga on at “Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls”
Set in 2005 Russia, Fairytale Lives follows innocent-abroad Annie (Samie Spring Detzer) on her trip back to the newly old country. She’s a twenty-year-old student, there to improve her Russian accent and learn business vocabulary. Continue reading Get Your Baba Yaga on at “Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls”
Why Inherit the Wind? Why Here? Why Now?
Where their recent Laramie Project came to bruised, bleeding life onstage, this Inherit the Wind (through October 8 at Erickson Theatre Off Broadway; tickets: $30, $15 students/seniors, Thurs. half-price) only occasionally feels charged by a long-festering conflict. Though the play contains a famous line about journalism afflicting the comfortable, this production goes down remarkably easily in the company of fellow liberals. Continue reading Why Inherit the Wind? Why Here? Why Now?