Where do you find help when you realize you’ve nowhere else to go? That is the question at the center of “Help Yourself”, a witty one-woman show written and performed by Lauren Hunter and directed by Kitty Lindsay. The setting is a nondescript room – …Read more
“The Actual Dance,” is a passionate and moving one-man play written by and starring Samuel A. Simon. It is based on Simon’s personal experience with cancer and it is a story told from the rarely seen perspective of a man whose wife has just been diag …Read more
The musical “The Hills Are Alive,” part of “The 2013 New York Musical Theatre Festival,” takes its title quite literally. Mocking the original 1965 film “The Sound of Music” with character changes and adjustments. The play starts by taking the “Von …Read more
“Woolly Mammoth Panic Attack” is Rated R… for raunchy, rambunctious and ridiculously funny. Matt Nagin, poet, writer, and comedian presents his uproarious one man standup show, and it was a stellar success. This show was not made for the uptight. If …Read more
When the stories of extremely unsympathetic characters are covered extensively in the media, many of the complexities of their psychologies go unseen. “Slain in the Spirit” is an exploration of the underpinnings of such a mind, based on the harrowing …Read more
Son of a Hutch is a solo performance by Joe Hutcheson of his life’s story. Growing up, he felt like the odd one out from his family. While all the males he’s grown up around seem like mirror depictions of one another – playing baseball together as me …Read more
In “Unbroken Circle”, writer James Wesley presents us with the portrait of a family on the verge of collapse. The year is 1970, the setting a Galveston so undeniably Texan that people make “mormon” sound like “Merman,” and where a family gets togethe …Read more
Subject 62 is a show where the audience steps into the mind of someone who’s losing their memory at a rapid pace. Ever seen what it’s like inside the deepest, darkest depths of someone else? Subject 62 brings to life the fears, hopes, past loves and …Read more
“Cougar the Musical” is not about dating younger men. Rather it’s about showing that love is ageless. Donna Moore, the creator of the show, envisioned a play that would give women confidence to feel good about themselves and find love at any point in …Read more
The Broadway revival of Horton Foote’s “The Trip to Bountiful” features the must-see performance of the season in the shape of Cicely Tyson. She plays Carrie Watts, a strong-willed widow who runs away from her house to visit her hometown one last tim …Read more
