Songs for a New World grapples with the jumble of emotions prompted by the end of the pandemic, while also serving as a potent reminder of what a joyful experience musical theater can be.
SpeakEasy Stage Company
Theater Review: “TJ Loves Sallly 4 Ever” — Scattershot Satire
An exciting, subversive idea animates TJ Loves Sally 4 Ever.
Theater Review: “The Pink Unicorn” — Hugging the Cactus
SpeakEasy Stage Company has (once again) chosen a bold script for its audience.
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.
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.
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.)
Theater Review: “Choir Boy” — Musical Grace
Few of the numbers in Choir Boy fails to astonish.
Theater Review: “The View UpStairs” — Celebrating a Milestone
As a vision of gay bonding, The View UpStairs exudes a wonderful in-your-face spirit.
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.
Theater Review: “Once” — Everything Goes Brilliantly Right
Once is a wonderful musical and the Speakeasy Stage production does exquisitely right by its considerable merits.