Kids grow up so fast. I took my 7 year old to see “Piggy Nation”, and while he had a very good time, he also commented that the show is was obviously for “little kids”.  I would have to agree that the target audience for this enjoyable little product …Read more

Imagine a ghost story told in a rural nightmare town where the lights are always gone. Now add livestock, the abandoned women of Eaton, Colorado, and violence in the American West and you’ve got “My Daughter Keeps Our Hammer”, a world premiere play b …Read more

Going back in time as witness to tragedy helps us to test our moral compass and re-evaluate where our humanity lies as a society.  In “When Yellow Were Stars On Earth”, playwright and director Franco Moschetti brings our shared history to the stage.  …Read more

We’ve all had a grade school crush that took our breath away, where we thought we’d just never get over them.  “Outside Mullingar” brings that bright-eyed, head-over-heels, “Why don’t you see me standing directly in front of you?”, you-and-me-forever …Read more

On the surface, “Intimacy” is a raunchy comedy featuring a uniquely fluid set design, a range of acting ability, and exposed genitalia. If you dig a bit deeper, you find a commentary on suburbia and Freudian theory far more entertaining than anything …Read more

The blurb on this play says it’s about a well-off family in Chicago, who adopt a former child-soldier from Uganda: “As the two worlds collide, he is yet again a victim and perpetrator of a war just as damaging as the one he escaped.” I believe I saw …Read more

At the beginning of “Craving for Travel”, a two-actor, thirty-character comedy by Greg Edwards and Andy Sandberg, the lights come up to reveal two offices. One is inhabited by Gary (played by Thom Sesma) and the other by Joanne (Michelle Ragusa).  Th …Read more

“A Brief History of the Soviet Union” is not a single story, but rather a series of chronological vignettes that take place at strategic points in the history of the USSR. Starting with the Russian revolution of 1917, and ending around 2000, we are t …Read more

Don’t count on Carole King to see the new musical that depicts her life. “This show is very revealing and painful. There are moments she doesn’t want to live again,” points out Cynthia Weill, King’s longtime friend and one of the major characters por …Read more

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a 19th-century American feminist and writer, claimed that she wrote the short story “The Yellow Wall-Paper” in an attempt to relegate the “rest cure” — routinely prescribed by doctors for ‘nervous conditions’ — to the anna …Read more