For Hoaxocaust!, throw away everything you know about the Holocaust. Actually, maybe don’t throw it away — you’ll need it to understand the play — but momentarily suspend everything you thought about the worst monstrosity of the 20th century becaus …Read more
Many musicals about real life people tend to follow a specific formula: they set their plot in an intimate setting the likes of which the real life artist would have performed in, they build a setlist comprised of their greatest hits and then they ad …Read more
Fabulous! a new musical with book and lyrics by Dan Derby and music by Michael Rheault, advertises itself as “the queen of new musical comedies!” and you have to give it points for its optimism and energy. Its execution however, leaves a bit to be de …Read more
The best parodies are those that not only trivialize and satirize the elements and traits of their subject, but those that do so because its creators are so versed in the matter, that the jokes land with equal amounts of humor and heart. Bob and Tobl …Read more
To quote our old pal Billy Shakespeare, “the course of true love never did run smooth.” Walking out of Theater for the New City’s double feature opera program, The Power of Love, you might think truer words have never been spoken. Now normally I woul …Read more
Oracle Theater Inc presents a compelling historical story about the men who fought for our country in the first World War, and the challenges they faced upon their return. Through the strategic use of culturally relevant music, character metaphors, a …Read more
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
