BWW Review: Kicking at the Hippodrome: Nearly Perfect KINKY BOOTS
That you're going to have a wonderful time at Kinky Boots is something I don't have to tell you.
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BWW Review: Diverse and Parentless at the Turn of the Century: RAGTIME Revived at Toby's
The America depicted here is a place of quests: Father's for the unknown horizon, Tateh's for a land where he and his daughter can prosper, Coalhouse's for reuniting with Sarah and raising his son in a world where blacks are regarded and treated as equals.
BWW Reviews: Priestley's Savage AN INSPECTOR CALLS Shows Continued Topicality At Everyman
Inspector Goole (Chris Genebach), already knows the answers to all his questions, yet his method, bullying confirmatory confessions out of the family members, is great theater.
BWW Reviews: Strong Production, Profound Show: INTO THE WOODS at Toby's
The characters are all compelled by circumstances to go back into the woods, and this time they encounter there such things as infidelity, divorce, the death of parents, the death of children, abandonment, catastrophe - and overarching this the absence of a narration (the narrator becomes a casualty
BWW Reviews: Linguistic Marriage Counseling and Character Acting in a Comic Soufflé: THE FULL CATASTROPHE at Contemporary American Theater Festival
For a weightless and elegant good time, it would be hard to beat The Full Catastrophe, by Michael Weller, at the Contemporary American Theater Festival.
BWW Reviews: A Fashion-Tinged Shaggy Dog Story: EVERYTHING YOU TOUCH at Contemporary American Theater Festival
The overall effect is a bit like a fireworks display, with loud fun things happening more or less continually.
BWW Reviews: Scofflaw Playwriting, Standout Acting: ON CLOVER ROAD at Contemporary American Theater Festival
The action, from the shadowy world of religious cults and deprogrammers, takes place in the ruins of a derelict motel, where distraught mother Kate (Tasha Lawrence) has been brought by Stine (Lee Sellars), a supposed specialist in reuniting abandoned parents with cult-brainwashed youngsters.
BWW Reviews: The Messy But Effective Premiere of WE ARE PUSSY RIOT at the Contemporary American Theater Festival
The success of PUSSY RIOT rests upon what author Barbara Hammond gets right.
BWW Reviews: Personality Disorders and Personal Worlds: WORLD BUILDERS at Contemporary American Theater Festival
Whitney and Max have been compelled by their mental disorders to turn their backs on the real world, and on the actual human connections available to them with friends and family, to obsess instead about imaginary worlds of their own making.
BWW Reviews: Shredded Storytelling Undermines THE PILLOW BOOK at Cohesion/Strand
The Pillow Book takes off from the current vogue of non-consecutive story-telling; everyone wants to emulate the mystification of Pulp Fiction, with its sudden reveals of not only what will happen, but of what did happen.
BWW Reviews: Funny But Not Quite Nailing It: BLITHE SPIRIT at Everyman
There is a kind of magic which will exorcise the problems of Blithe Spirit, and let us not notice them: This production cruises and coasts on the farcical elements and the bickering and the eccentricities of Mme.
BWW Reviews: Solemn and Unusual: 1776 at Toby's
There are times it's hard to credit that 1776 is even a musical.
BWW Reviews: MARLEY: A Rare and Topical Event at Center Stage
Even though the historical Marley was probably mainly thinking about apartheid when he sang these words, you could not possibly sing them on a Baltimore stage these days without making the audience think of events closer to home.
BWW Reviews: Cruella in a Mantilla?: BERNARDA ALBA at FPCT Needs Some Rethinking
Only a brave community theater would take on The House of Bernarda Alba, Federico Garcia Lorca's last play.
BWW Reviews: Playing Marital and Mortal Odds: 13 DEAD HUSBANDS at Cohesion
If charming and silly are your thing, you'll have fun at Thirteen Dead Husbands by Tom Horan.
BWW Reviews: She's Not There: ZERO HOUR: TOKYO ROSE'S LAST TAPE Alights at Towson
Playwright Miwa Yanagi is almost certainly right that the authorities convicted the wrong Tokyo Rose, but the main point isn't that, but rather that the spirit of Tokyo Rose was ethereal, ephemeral, and not subject to being captured, either by soldiers or even by memory.
BWW Reviews: Women's Fate in War: RUINED at Everyman
There is much more to the play than Mama's turn as a sort of Auntie Mame-of-the-Ituri-rainforest.
BWW Reviews: A Stunning WHALE at the REP
Trust me: you will become absorbed with these characters.
BWW Reviews: It's a Wonderful IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE at Center Stage
At the end, the audience for this show is pulled not merely into the studio but into Bedford Falls, as the stage snow falls not only on the characters in the story set there but on the performers in the studio and on the audience as well.
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