BWW Review: A Frosty but Comic Take on LOVE AND INFORMATION at Fells Point Corner Theatre
Churchill's take on love and on information seems a bit chilly.
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BWW Review: A Sure-Footed BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS at Vagabond Players
Neil Simon's indecision about genre in Brighton Beach Memoirs was related to his problem being direct about his parents.
New Modes of Representation Forcing Reexamination of Oldtime Heroes: MEN ON BOATS at Baltimore Center Stage
The Powell expedition down the Colorado was a voyage of discovery only from the perspective of certain white Protestant men, since Native Americans lived along the route – and white Mormons dwelt close by as well.
Forbidden Love and Royalty: Dueling Themes in E2 at REP Stage
Clearly, the story of a king who would, legally speaking, seem like the safest person in the land, but who nonetheless is slain, as is his lover, because their relationship is considered taboo, seems facially like a perfect vehicle to provide that treatment.
An Old But Surprisingly Modern Comic Treasure: THE KNIGHT OF THE BURNING PESTLE at Baltimore Shakespeare Factory
The Knight of the Burning Pestle is rarely produced, and it certainly deserves the occasional outing, if only as a reminder that our forbears were just as interested in trying experiments with theatrical genre and form as we are.
August Wilson Ending on a High Note: RADIO GOLF at Everyman
And thus the struggle over ways of thinking and dealing commences.
Cold-Hearted But Great Fun: A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER at Dundalk Community Theatre
Getting Americans in a frame of mind where they'll despise British aristocrats is like shooting fish in a barrel (unless they're Americans who happen to be still in a daze from a viewing of Downton Abbey).
Personality Verging on Personhood: PROXY at Rapid Lemon
One of the things drama does so well is to make us think and feel about the vectors a society is following.
Making Deportation Politics Personal: MISS YOU LIKE HELL at Baltimore Center Stage
All politics is personal, as the saying goes.
BWW Review: BRIGHT HALF LIFE at Strand Theater Company
Bright Half Life is presented in a totally nonsequential fashion, and at nearly breakneck speed much of the time.
BWW Review: From Farcical to Sombre in PERFECT ARRANGEMENT at Fells Point Corner Theatre
The title Perfect Arrangement refers to the compact of a male gay couple and a lesbian couple to hide in plain view from the disapproval of the world in 1950 by posing as two straight couples living in adjoining halves of a Georgetown duplex.
BWW Review: CABARET at Olney Theatre Center Keeps Us Gasping
Keeping us gasping is what Cabaret in all of its incarnations has always been about.
BWW Review: The Guys Are Alright: SUPPORT GROUP FOR MEN at Contemporary American Theater Festival
Support Group for Men will send you away happy.
BWW Review: Profoundly Moving CHESTER BAILEY at Contemporary American Theater Festival
Dougherty unspools the stories of Chester and Dr.
Patriarchy Run Rampant: A WELCOME GUEST at Contemporary American Theater Festival
Then the government, represented by its functionary Lucius (Michael Rogers), brings in Shimeus (Wade McCollum), a derelict of another sort, whimpering and traumatized by an arson that killed everyone else in his family.
BWW Review: You'll Laugh, You'll Shiver: WRECKED at Contemporary American Theater Festival
It's an old trick, but a good one: Set two contrasting dramatic tones (usually domestic comedy and dread) against each other and let them fight it out throughout a play.
MY LORD, WHAT A NIGHT! at Contemporary American Theater Festival: Clashing Views on Resisting Racism
The drama works because of the intriguing way the characters' ideas about how to act in response to Marian Anderson's two provocative exclusions (first from Nassau Inn and then from Constitution Hall) shift repeatedly in response to new information, so that consensus is almost impossible to achieve,
Brooklyn Is In Him: ANTONIO'S SONG at Contemporary American Theater Festival
And now of course we are into the story of Antonio's family of origin, and the world of his origin, which has conditioned him to behave this way, which implicitly and explicitly looks to its men to solve problems with violence.
BWW Review: Necessity and Realism Prevail Along with Enchantment in LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST at Chesapeake Shakespeare Company
Berowne gloomily foresees: 'Necessity will make us all forsworn Three thousand times within this three year's space.
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