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Paradise Lost
The American Repertory Theater’s spring festival, America: Boom, Bust and Baseball, presented it’s second offering at the Loeb Drama Center this week. Falling under the label “Bust”, Clifford Odet’s Paradise Lost is a pithy tale of loss in the wake of the Great Depression which has some startling, and at times disturbing similarities to our current economic climate. I’m used to the A.R.T.... [Read more]
Foreverendia
After Brian Tuttle and 11:11 Theatre Company’s holiday season offering, The Three (Un)Wise Men, I was apprehensive about my trip to The Factory Theatre for Tuttle’s newest tale, Foreverendia. The Three (Un)Wise Men wasn’t a BAD show, in fact, I gave it a pretty good overall review, but it wasn’t a pithy thing, and it relied a lot more on one-liners and goofy stage business than it did on... [Read more]
Private Fears in Public Places
The Zeitgeist Stage Company has yet again transformed the intimate BCA Black Box into a unique playing space for their winter production, Alan Ayckbourn’s Private Fears in Public Places. Part apartment, part office, part hotel bar, the thrust-style space is fully explored by the actors, hiding and highlighting different interactions for different areas in the audience. It only heightened the... [Read more]
The Island of Slaves
As I sit down to write this review for the Orfeo Group’s production of The Island of Slaves, I am presented with a particular conundrum. In reading the directors note I was thus informed, “[Y]ou’ll probably enjoy yourself more if you don’t know what’s coming.” At first glance, I took this lightly. I thought to myself, “I read the synopsis of the show, I’m pretty aware... [Read more]
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
I like to believe that I was well suited to review The Company Theater’s production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. I have a particular love for words. One might describe me as sesquipedalian. One of my favorite words is even a song title from the show (Weltanschauung). Some may say I go too far in my quest to proliferate a plethora of vocabulary. So a musical about a group... [Read more]
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