A&E Freud’s Last Session Mark St. Germain imagines the dialogue between two titanic thinkers in a way that only a hack writer could, turning it into a stream of platitudes and cute aphorisms. email print font size comments 0 options…
Mark Garvin Anna Zieglers play about British DNA researcher, had an honorable if unspectacular debut in 2010. But just this week, it opened in London with Nicole Kidman in the lead, putting the play and Franklin back in the headlines.…
Kate Raines/Plate 3 Photography SPACE ODDITY: Lindsay Smiling and Jaylene Clark Owens in Orbiter 3s ‘Moon Man Walk.’ Though both the title of this play and the name of the presenting fledging theater company (Orbiter 3, in its inaugural production)…
By nature, Im more contrarian than agrarian. Id almost always choose indoors over out, and I spend many of my happiest hours in darkened rooms. (Hey, Im a theater critic, what did you expect?) Yet, last weekend, I found myself…
Photo by Jim Cox This little musical, a recent hit off-Broadway, is a chamber-sized murder mystery with a small cast. The character of police detective Marcus Moscowicz is played by one actor (Ian Lowe on opening night through June 21;…
Mark Garvin O Passion! How I have tried to love you! Before I get to the Ardens elegant, beautifully realized production, which almost almost changed my mind about the show, allow me to provide some context. I…
Johanna Austin/AustinArt.org HEAR ME OUT: Rebekah Sharp and Dane Eissler in Azuka Theatre’s ‘Speech and Debate’ Speech and Debate is about hookups online and in-person between gay older men and teenage boys: not exactly a hot topic for popular…
Paola Nogueras FEELING SCRAPPY: Nick (Jake Blouch) holds back Martha (Catharine Slusar) from attacking George (Pearce Bunting) in Theatre Exiles ‘Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’ Lets start by celebrating the meteoric rise of Theatre Exile. In less than two decades,…
Katie Reing PARTY BOYS: (L-R) Griffin Stanton-Ameisen and John Morrison in Inis Nua’s ‘Penelope.’ Something magical happens 30 minutes into Penelope. It begins when Quinn, a middle-aged man, unflatteringly clad in a Speedo, babbles on with the preening self-promotion characteristic of…
Alexander Iziliaev All the worlds a stage, Shakespeare told us and director Blanka Zizka seems to take it literally. Her busy, incohesive production of Hamlet features multiple playing areas the large stage itself; plus a proscenium arch at the back,…
