Pluck the characters out of classic drama, spin them around, and set them in motion in variations of the story they have inhabited forever. It’s an exciting device, which Tom Stoppard beautifully put on the map with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are D …Read more

The project of documentary theatre has a legacy as a unique cultural space where fact and fiction, reportage and art, intersect. Especially in its more recent iterations, it begs the question of what role theater, re-enactment on stage, can have in t …Read more

Masturbation, middle age, and the declining health of prostates starts Stephen Belber’s comedic play about waning friendship. Fault Lines chronicles the bromance between Jim (Neil Holland) and Bill (Chaz Reuben) as they meet at an old haunt for Bill’ …Read more

Waiting for Godot has been staged time and time again, in many different contexts and by many different casts, since its Paris premiere in January, 1953, over 60 years ago. However, after seeing what at first glance seemed an odd theatrical choice — …Read more

Clickbait, now playing at the Access Theater, is an interactive theater piece that poses multiple questions that deserve stage time: how can mental illness and suicide affect a community as a whole? How do we reconcile who we want to be and who we re …Read more

The promotional material on Dylan Coburn Gray’s Boys and Girls, part of the 1st Irish Festival, describes it well: “Emerging from the Irish spoken word scene, this play paints the Dublin nightscape in pyrotechnic verse; 4 intercut voices muse, tease, …Read more

The turbulent waters of friendship are explored in Ruby Rae Spiegel’s hard-hitting and moving new play Dry Land, now playing at the HERE Arts Center in a Colt Coeur production. The play mostly takes place in the girls’ locker room of a high school in …Read more

When there is chemistry between two people, they sometimes create a little smoke. In the titillating one-act, two-person play Smoke by Kim Davies, the heat generated by the characters gets so intense, you wonder if they’re going to get burned. At a h …Read more

Red Eye of Love, an old-fashioned musical with a few absurd twists, delivers an enjoyable and refreshing evening of fun. Produced by Amas Musical Theatre and playing at the Dicapo Theatre, Red Eye of Love gives the kind of pleasure one gets from Four …Read more

Dream Up Festival’s production Muse, by Crystal Field and Shakespeare’s Sister Company, is everything you could hope for in a gothic Victorian romance play. The costumes are beautifully authentic, the props apropos, and the love story — oh, the love …Read more