SpeakEasy Stage Company

Theater Review: “Pru Payne” — Critical Condition

October 22, 2024
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This is a well-honed, mostly successful script about the difficulties of making human connections — a drama about seizing the day.

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Theater Review: “Laughs in Spanish” — The Art of the Heart

September 17, 2024
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Is it possible for an outstanding actress to achieve similar heights as a playwright? The answer is yes, but with reservations.

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Theater Review: “A Strange Loop” — An Exhilarating Musical Loop-de-Loop

May 2, 2024
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This superb Speakeasy Stage Company/Front Porch Collective co-production is emotionally charged and immediate, intent on keeping the material fresh and raw.

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Theater Review: “Cost of Living” — A Powerful Drama About Our Longing to Connect

March 24, 2024
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Critical to the success of “Cost of Living” is playwright Martyna Majok’s refusal to resort to tropes about people with disabilities and those who care for them.

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Theater Review: “The Band’s Visit” — Revelations of Commonality

November 17, 2023
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This well-directed and performed production of a musical about the universal longing for connection delivers a stirringly heart felt experience.

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Theater Review: “POTUS, Or Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive”

September 25, 2023
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“POTUS” supplies plenty of political amusement as it pits savvy, competent women against the blithering males running the American government.

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Theater Review: At This “Prom” — Acceptance, Love, and Laughter

May 22, 2023
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The Prom’s greatest strength is how the musical can be, almost simultaneously, satirical, hilarious, and nuanced.

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Theater Review: “Fairview” — A Room With a View?

February 24, 2023
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It is refreshing to encounter a script that is so determined to keep audiences off-kilter as it goes about undercutting domestic business as usual.

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Theater Review: “Heroes of the Fourth Turning” — Dear Lord, Pray for Them

September 18, 2022
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It shouldn’t be surprising that Heroes of the Fourth Turning is monotonously ironic. No happy warriors for Christ here.

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Theater Review: “The Inheritance” — Confronting the Unthinkable

June 3, 2022
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As National Pride Month begins, The Inheritance is a powerful way to honor and remember the impossible journey so many have taken to win the right to simply be themselves in public.

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