SpeakEasy Stage Company
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.
An exciting, subversive idea animates TJ Loves Sally 4 Ever.
SpeakEasy Stage Company has (once again) chosen a bold script for its audience.
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.
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.
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.)
As a vision of gay bonding, The View UpStairs exudes a wonderful in-your-face spirit.
School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play is a serious comedy that takes aim at our provinciality and ignorance.
Once is a wonderful musical and the Speakeasy Stage production does exquisitely right by its considerable merits.
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