SpeakEasy Stage Company

Theater Review: “The Pink Unicorn” — Hugging the Cactus

March 10, 2021
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SpeakEasy Stage Company has (once again) chosen a bold script for its audience.

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

March 3, 2020
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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.

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Theater Review: “Pass Over” — An Unforgiving World

January 19, 2020
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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.

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

November 7, 2019
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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.)

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Theater Review: “Choir Boy” — Musical Grace

September 22, 2019
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Few of the numbers in Choir Boy fails to astonish.

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

June 4, 2019
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As a vision of gay bonding, The View UpStairs exudes a wonderful in-your-face spirit.

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Theater Review: “School Girls” — Teaching Lessons

May 6, 2019
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School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play is a serious comedy that takes aim at our provinciality and ignorance.

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Theater Review: “Once” — Everything Goes Brilliantly Right

March 5, 2019
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Once is a wonderful musical and the Speakeasy Stage production does exquisitely right by its considerable merits.

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Theater Review: “Small Mouth Sounds” — Small Change

January 9, 2019
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Despite its promising premise, Bess Wohl’s script is yet another wan exercise in genial domestic comedy.

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Theater Review: A Fabulous “Fun Home”

October 29, 2018
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The SpeakEasy Stage production is intimate and emotionally satisfying, highlighting the musical’s strengths — its sharply witty book, memorable songs, and heartbreaking characters.

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