Theater
With this production, Penobscot Producing Artistic Director Bari Newport has raised the artistic bar for Bangor’s premiere theater company.
Skeleton Crew offers a redemptive look at a national tragedy — the financial crisis of 2008.
In The Humans, Stephen Karam suggests that America can be a heaven that, in a moment, might flip into hell.
Steve is a satisfyingly genial comedy that brings up, but then darts quickly away from, serious issues.
There is much to love in this Lyric Stage Company production and I recommend it highly.
Adrianne Krstansky, a marvelous actress, understandably exhibits signs of the strain of having to carry the entire production on her shoulders.
Dramatist Rajiv Joseph probes the gentle sides of masculinity as well as the intertwined power of beauty and terror.
The White Card‘s examination of white philanthropy and racism stays well within the comfort zone.
Schimmelpfennig’s Winter Solstice is an important play by a major playwright.
Theater Commentary: “Skeleton Crew” — Not With the Union
To my surprise, the auto union was written out of the picture from the start, as if dramatist Dominique Morisseau saw it as an embarrassment.
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