To Be or...WhateverApril 22, 2009Eye-candy TV actor Andrew Rally is facing a 'career in crisis'--he has to play HAMLET. That's bad enough, but toss in an all-too-chaste girlfriend, a realtor who communes with her dead mother, a crazy director, a chainsmoking agent and John Barrymore's ghost, and the result is a raucous comedy, I HATE HAMLET now at the Vagabond Theater.
'SMOLDER' at the Strand: Love BurnsApril 12, 2009It's said that there are no worse fates that can befall a man as when his dreams don't come true and when they do. Reno, an apartment 'super' superintendent with a dysfunctional past, discovers the truth of this saying in Julie Lewis' play, SMOLDER, now at The Strand Theater.
Crimson TideMarch 30, 2009Tis Pity She's a Whore is the anti-Romeo & Juliet, a revenge play that mixes elements of the famed lovers tragedy with MacBethish gore with a twist worthy of Quentin Tarantino.
State of DenialMarch 23, 2009Anton Chekov's The Cherry Orchard appears to be a simple story, but is so much more; the issues, conflicts and passions burst in color, like a cherry orchard in bloom, on the stage.
Burning BrassMarch 14, 2009Warren Leight's play, 'SIDE MAN,' chronicles the story of
a major paradigm shift in American music from the perspective of the Glimmer family.
Pinter and RiposteMarch 9, 2009Is a night at the theater, simply that?an evening?s entertainment where you laugh, you cry, you kiss $15 bucks good-bye? Or should what happens on stage be an evolutionary experience, reality taken to a higher level? If the latter, check out the Vagabond Players' production of Harold Pinter's OLD TIMES now playing...
Dundalk Presents EAT OR BE EATENMarch 2, 2009It's every fox for him or herself as Lillian Hellman's tale of greed, class conflict and social injustice, 'The Little Foxes,' comes to the Dundalk Community Theater.
Domestic DisturbanceFebruary 23, 2009It's all smoke, gunshots, nudity, violence and adult situations as Single Carrot Theatre presents Tracy Letts' KILLER JOE. Meet the Smith family, the anti-Waltons who enjoy the joys of adultery, murder and reruns of 'Cannon.'
Don't Take Life Cirrusly--Didactic Comedy with Cloud 9February 15, 2009Scanning director Brad J. Ranno's notes about the Spotlighter's Theater production of acclaimed English playwright Caryl Churchill's 'Cloud 9,' I was less than enthused. With references to race, gender and feminism, weighty, stolid issues that 'resonate in our social conscious' (ugh), I wondered, why can't a play just be fun? Instruct, but don't preach. Enlighten, but don't lecture. And above all, pleeeezzzz-ENTERTAIN.