Rococo Rouge, presented by Company XIV and conceived, directed, and choreographed by Austin McCormick, will be running through November 2, 2014 in their new home, XIV. Upon entering, you are immediately placed in a world of exuberance and vitality re …Read more
Hard times fall upon a family of farmers in 1949 Idaho. Even though the war has ended, Esther (Lynne McCollough) and her children still await the return of father Forrest from a POW camp in Japan. In the captivating family drama The Twelfth Labor, we …Read more
There is no more universal theme for a musical than the trials and tribulations of love and Love Quirks, a new musical (Music/Lyrics: Seth Bisen-Hersh, Book: Mark Childers) gives that universality a delightfully funny, often touching run for its mone …Read more
When you take your seat at The Tank for Rule of 7×7, an evening of seven new plays each following the same seven rules, you may think you overstepped the theater and stumbled into a reunion for an extremely large and unusually loving family. The spac …Read more
If the unlikely conjugation of that title throws you, it should. Teach, Teacher, Teachest is not theater of the absurd; it is theater of the certifiable, in keeping with the Ionesco classic, The Lesson, inspiring it. David Koteles’s play is also (pi …Read more
Say you had a hankering to watch classic Steven Spielberg film Jurassic Park. Now say you only had about an hour and wanted way more laughs than the original film provides. Then get your butt to the Peoples Improv Theater (PIT) for Hold On To Your Bu …Read more
Few of us dream of drudging away at a poultry factory where we cannot feel our limbs or ever escape the cold. In Lisa Ramirez’s To The Bone, we see four Latina immigrants do just do that while praying, arguing, ranting, and trying to live with each o …Read more
Solitary Light ends as it begins, drenching the audience in complete darkness. What transpires in between is a tender and heart wrenching musing on love and life in a time long past. The new musical is part of the second annual Theater:Village Festiv …Read more
The Mint Theater Company’s mission to revive lost plays that still hold relevance to our time is being fulfilled by its revival of George Kelly’s The Fatal Weakness. In a country and culture where the divorce rate is over 50% and many Millennials are …Read more
Even for those of us that weaned on the fine arts, Rudolf Bauer is not a household name — certainly not the household name he expected to become post WWII when he emerged from a German prison and came to America with Solomon R. Guggenheim as his spo …Read more