Review: SPARK at 20% Theatre Company

Review: SPARK at 20% Theatre Company

It’s difficult to determine what 20% Theatre Company’s production of Caridad Svich’s SPARK is really about. Sure it touches on a lot of issues: class, veteran mental health, family dysfunction, sisterhood, love, and gender roles. However neither the direction, design or script provide the audience with a path to follow, leaving us to meander around multiple dead ends.

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Review: HINTER at Steep Theatre

Review: HINTER at Steep Theatre

Sasha Smith and Sigrid Sutter in Hinter at Steep Theatre. Photo by Lee Miller. By Bec Willett “Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.” This Margaret Atwood quote appears in my mind before echoing around the rustic cottage set of Calamity West’s...

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Review: JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT at Drury Lane

Review: JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT at Drury Lane

If the conventional JOSEPH is junk food, Drury Lane’s is the Instagrammable knockout.

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Review: ALL MY SONS at Court Theatre

Review: ALL MY SONS at Court Theatre

The production is one of roughly 300+ plays I’ve seen over the past two years. It is easily in the top three among all of those.

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After 29 Seasons, RHINO FEST Is Still Going Strong

After 29 Seasons, RHINO FEST Is Still Going Strong

Opportunity plays a pinnacle role in today’s arts and social relevancy when juxtaposed to the current events and hardships. The Rhinoceros Festival bravely charges forward, driven to create a way for any new idea and any inspired mind to have space to breathe life into their creations.

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Review: TRAITOR at A Red Orchid Theatre

Review: TRAITOR at A Red Orchid Theatre

What starts out as a fairly straightforward story of a man seeking the truth at the risk of personal and professional ruin becomes something knottier and more chaotic as Stock’s crusade continues to spin out of control.

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Review: BOY at TimeLine

Review: BOY at TimeLine

With BOY, TimeLine sets a strong example of theater as a call to action, conversation and empathy.

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Review: THE ANTELOPE PARTY at Theatre Wit

Review: THE ANTELOPE PARTY at Theatre Wit

I have to admit, I was incredibly skeptical when asked to review a show entitled THE ANTELOPE PARTY, whose principle iconography includes the “My Little Pony” toys in Trump-era ball caps.

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Review: FRANKLINLAND at Jackalope Theatre Company

Review: FRANKLINLAND at Jackalope Theatre Company

The dynamics of a father & son relationship are often perplexing. With the assumed normal construct of what a “man” is and what a man wants, we often have conflicting agendas, and as the son grows into his preferred wants, a father may continue to instill his perceptions of how the son should think.

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Review: THE GOOD FIGHT at Babes With Blades Theatre Company

Review: THE GOOD FIGHT at Babes With Blades Theatre Company

The noted philosopher and essayist George Santayana wrote: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Given today’s regularly shocking and dismaying political climate, these words ring now with an especially uneasy truth.

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