Theater
Hub Theatre’s virtual production of Much Ado About Nothing recognizes Zoom’s potential for farce and leans into it: this is a rollicking delight of a show that refuses to take itself seriously, to everyone’s benefit.
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Bill Irwin’s homage to Samuel Beckett explores what makes the writer so fascinating, even inspiring, for those who appreciate the knockabout beauty of his despair.
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I’ve hated enough people,” Penny Arcade confessed, “I can’t hate anyone new until 2022.”
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Are our theaters indifferent, craven, or complicit? Take your pick.
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The script is not a conventional history of women’s suffrage: dramatic Jean Ann Douglass mobilizes satire, sexuality, suffering, and sarcasm.
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As we grapple with building the brave new world of live theater in a Covid and post-Covid world, a few stray thoughts.
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The play’s swift running give-and-take is chillingly beguiling, its myriad allusions arousing your curiosity as you consider the characters’ positions and conclusions yourself.
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Taking action on even a modest number of these suggestions will undoubtedly shake up the current puerility of much of American theater criticism.
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The opportunity to see the culture-changing Broadway phenomenon Hamilton on Disney Plus, sucked up all the arts oxygen over the Fourth of July weekend.
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Theater Feature: An Interview with Benny Sato Ambush on Directing the Virtual Reading of Anthony Clarvoe’s “The Living”
“A play like The Living pricks the conscience of the country. It is the reason I wanted to produce and direct it.”
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