An adaptation of Daphne Du Maurier’s The Birds, by Conor McPherson is playing as part of Origin’s First Irish Theatre Festival; those familiar with the plot will find it refreshed by Stefan Dzeparoski’s claustrophobic, minimalistic direction which ma …Read more
We’ve all heard about saying something with flowers, but “say it with soup” is a rather unique form of expression. Yet this is what Ray (Tim Kang), reluctantly, figures out will be the best way to communicate decades of unsaid things to his dying fat …Read more
From the simple question “can you tell me your life story?”, the folks at Nature Theater of Oklahoma crafted one of the most epic enterprises in contemporary American theatre: Life and Times, a 9-part (so far) saga that has taken on the form of a mur …Read more
The two women are dressed in white, the older one sits still, as the younger one stands close to her and begins applying makeup on her face. They are surrounded by coffins that fill the air with a pervasive eeriness, and yet the two women can’t help …Read more
From the Staten Island Ferry, to Picasso’s dining room, the work of Erin Mee defies the notions many people have of where theatre should take place. But the proscenium isn’t the only thing she removes from her work, she also does without the timidity …Read more
Taylor Mac’s ambitious A 24-Decade History of Popular Music is set to culminate at St. Ann’s Warehouse with an epic 24-hour-long performance starting on October 8, but those without the stamina, or caffeine tolerance to stay up for so long can take t …Read more
The man with whom I share my Lyft ride on the way to Ford’s Theatre tells me and the driver about a former high school classmate he was very fond of, whom he lost contact with years before. One day he saw one of his Facebook friend’s pictures at the …Read more
Whenever there’s a group of six or more female characters onstage, they’re either making Guido Contini’s life impossible, or trying to be good wives for their barn-raising, lumberjack husbands, which is why Sarah DeLappe’s The Wolves, with its all-fe …Read more
The lead characters in Leslye Headland’s Bachelorette are what millennials would refer to as “hot messes”, they are young, single women trapped in the limbo between responsibility and hedonism. Headland’s gift is that she doesn’t push them into choos …Read more
The main characters in The Jamb are addicted to something, for man-child Tuffer (Nic Grelli), it’s drugs, alcohol and sex-infused binges that do the trick, for his best friend Roderick (J. Stephen Brantley) it’s trying to fix Tuffer. When we first me …Read more
