While there is much to admire about Detroit Red’s script, there are serious problems with the staging.
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The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes suggests some marvelous possibilities.
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The latest show from circus troupe The 7 Fingers is both intimate and gasp-inducing.
Theater Review: “American Moor” — Lasting Impressions
American Moor sheds considerable insight into the tension between actor vs. director, into the power play between the two, and who will ultimately prevail.
Theater Review: “An Inspector Calls” — Upper Class Downfall
J. B. Priestly’s shallow characterizations keep his vision of moneyed skullduggery mundane rather than monstrous.
Theater Review: “Ada/Ava” — Puppetry Meets Technology
Ada/Ava is an impressive theatrical feat that finds a new, and invigorating, way of telling a story on stage.
Theater Review: “Kiss” and Don’t Tell
The bottom line is that we simply aren’t given a requisite sense of the play’s embrace of tragedy.
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Lester Bangs insisted that, at its best, rock was an act of pure rebellion, a liberation from the prison of respectability.
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The Druid Theatre Company staging shows what amazing things happens when a group of artists work together fully and completely .
Theater Preview: Conor Lovett on Music and Samuel Beckett in “Here All Night”
“If you’ll excuse me for being cheeky, it’s a collaboration between the players on stage and Beckett’s works.”