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SpeakEasy Stage Company

Theater Review: “The Children” — After the Damage Has Been Done

An apocalyptic backdrop gives the play urgency, especially given the current worldwide struggle to contain the Corvid-19 virus, which has already claimed thousands of lives.

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Karen MacDonald, Paula Plum, Robert Israel, SpeakEasy Stage Company, The Children

Theater Review: “Pass Over” — An Unforgiving World

If one of the aims of art is to create a distinctively imaginative world, than Pass Over succeeds in generating a landscape of devastation, a hopeless place filled with gaping wounds and visible scars.

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Antoinette Nwandu, Monica White Ndounou, Pass Over, Robert Israel, SpeakEasy Stage Company

Theater Review: “Admissions” — The Frustrations of the Privileged

Admissions is a successful comedy, but not quite the hot, scathing satire of ‘privileged whiteness’ one might gather from the ads. (Or from some of the local reviews.)

By: Daniel Gewertz Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Admissions, Joshua Harmon, SpeakEasy Stage Company

Theater Review: “Choir Boy” — Musical Grace

Few of the numbers in Choir Boy fails to astonish.

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Choir Boy, gospel, Maurice Emmanuel Parent, SpeakEasy Stage Company, Terrell Alvin McCraney

Theater Review: “The View UpStairs” — Celebrating a Milestone

As a vision of gay bonding, The View UpStairs exudes a wonderful in-your-face spirit.

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Max Vernon, Paul Daigneualt, SpeakEasy Stage Company, The View Upstairs

Theater Review: “School Girls” — Teaching Lessons

School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play is a serious comedy that takes aim at our provinciality and ignorance.

By: David Greenham Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: David Greenham, Jocelyn Bioh, School Girls, SpeakEasy Stage Company, Summer l. Williams

Theater Review: “Once” — Everything Goes Brilliantly Right

Once is a wonderful musical and the Speakeasy Stage production does exquisitely right by its considerable merits.

By: David Greenham Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: David Greenham, Once, SpeakEasy Stage Company

Theater Review: “Small Mouth Sounds” — Small Change

Despite its promising premise, Bess Wohl’s script is yet another wan exercise in genial domestic comedy.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Bess Wohl, Small Mouth Sounds, SpeakEasy Stage Company

Theater Review: A Fabulous “Fun Home”

The SpeakEasy Stage production is intimate and emotionally satisfying, highlighting the musical’s strengths — its sharply witty book, memorable songs, and heartbreaking characters.

By: Evelyn Rosenthal Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Fun House, Jeanine Tesori, Lisa Kron, SpeakEasy Stage Company

Theater Review: “Between Riverside and Crazy”‘s American Dream — Epic Fail

Stephen Adly Guirgis has written a fine play about those who would blur their minds rather than admit just how tired they are.

By: David Greenham Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Between Riverside and Crazy, David Greenham, SpeakEasy Stage Company, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Tiffany Nichole Greene

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