Can you imagine coming face to face with your idol? How would you act? Could you even form the words to speak? In Margot Connolly’s production of Keys, one lucky young lady has that very experience when she becomes immersed in the world of her hero, …Read more

A woman’s life is defined by her relationships with two men in John & Jen the “twist” being that they are not relationships of a romantic nature, but instead with her brother, and son. When we first meet Jen (Kate Baldwin) in 1952 she is twelve y …Read more

Six gimmick laden shorts make for one tedious evening. Lives of the Saints, the zany brainchild of theater maven David Ives, attests that clever-for-clever’s-sake theater can undo even the most skilled of storytellers. Ingeniously directed by John Ra …Read more

Tanya Barfield’s Bright Half Life at Women’s Project Theater is an ode to the sacrifices we make for love. The play shows us distilled flashes of one couple’s long term relationship, from their initial butterflies to eventual child rearing, divorce, …Read more

Five Times in One Night, Chiara Atik’s sweet and funny new play now showing at Ensemble Studio Theatre, is a sharp, witty meditation on relationships through time. Atik begins in the future right after a nuclear holocaust: a man and a woman find one …Read more

Walking in on Harry Feiner’s set for Rocket to the Moon, Clifford Odets’ rarely performed 1938 play now receiving a revival at the Theatre at St. Clements, is almost like walking into the Kansas of The Wizard of Oz. True, the rural Kansas of that fil …Read more

In the stage directions for Big Love (at Signature Theatre) playwright Charles Mee remarks that the setting of the play is “more an installation than a set.” It may be right to view the entire play with that note in mind — to imagine the script as a …Read more

It’s a post-sexual revolution world and Rosario is hung up on the 1970s counterculture she was once a part of. The glory days are over for this flamenco dancer and now she hangs around an old stage in San Diego, waiting for someone, anyone, to show u …Read more

You may call what James Lecesne does in The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey (at Dixon Place) what you will — performance art, a one-man-show, a monodrama. What it is, decidedly, is an invigorating theatre experience, both moving and highly ente …Read more

Sheila Callaghan’s Everything You Touch is half a biting satire about the world of fashion, half a story about a woman trying to find her true self. The plot is composed of two storylines that eventually complement each other, the first one set in 19 …Read more