The premise sells itself: a musical based on Craigslist ads. It’s a clever idea that promises a humorous look at what people look for behind the shield of anonymity. And for the most part, Veda Hille, Bill Richardson, and Amiel Gladstone deliver as p …Read more

Daphne du Maurier’s 1952 novella The Birds put a petrified chill to an atmosphere that was enhanced by Hitchcock’s film adaptation 11 years later. Conor McPherson’s 2009 stage adaptation concentrates less on the plot-driven grisliness of the novella …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

Owen McCafferty’s play Quietly depicts a highly charged confrontation between two men on opposite sides of a violent past in their shared city of Belfast. An Abbey Theatre production, Quietly, directed by Jimmy Fay, is currently on an extended run th …Read more

Playwright J. B. Heaps does theater the old-fashioned way: from the heart. He takes a subject that inspires him, builds a world for it and then shares it with others. From the inception of his idea to the moment he is greeting his audience at the 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

What is the mechanism? This is the question that To-By-For’s Mechanics of Love asks, taking a “How Stuff Works” approach to understanding everything from cars to love. Glen (Sathya Sridharan) lives with a condition that causes him to forget people. W …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

As I get on the phone to talk to Kate Baldwin I’m very self-conscious about my voice, a case of pharyngitis and allergies has left me with what feels like sandpaper and gravel going down my throat, and here I am about to speak to a human being with o …Read more