Theater
In this production, intractable conflicts occasionally bubble to the surface, but too often they are buried beneath family squabbling.
To its considerable credit, Make My Heart Flutter is more existential, literary, and weird than most American comedies.
Crack is too complex and nuanced to be reduced to an anti-psychiatric tract.
Self-production, I think, is for artists who also are entrepreneurs who have a burning desire to get their voice heard.
Despite some awkward staging decisions and the script tampering, there is plenty of lively drive in this production of Hedda Gabler.
The play’s lead characters – representing polar opposites, cultural versus religious Judaism – ultimately exhaust one another, and us.
Ether Dome is nothing if not ironic: a dire need for relief generates a mess of pain.
A Disappearing Number combines mathematics and drama in ways that will enthrall some, overwhelm others, and puzzle the rest.
This staging of Much Ado About Nothing would make an excellent ice-breaker for a discussion between adolescents and adults about sexting
Isango’s Magic Flute/ Impempe Yomlingo is lit by flashes of brilliance. Most can be traced directly to Mandisi Dyantyis’ reorchestration of Mozart’s orchestral score for an ensemble of marimbas.
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