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"Waitress" serves up great songs, story, show
A musical titled “Waitress” is going to evoke all sorts of expectations. It will tell the story of a working girl, under appreciated,...
Claude Solnik
Apr 205 min read


"Purpose" a great play about a great, big flawed family
Btanden Jacobs-Jenkins gives us a family that is high functioning and highly dysfunctional.
Claude Solnik
Apr 186 min read


"Turn Up the Volume" a drama that rocks off the Richter scale
Frank Lloyd Wright once said to make a great building, you need a great client. He was probably right, or at least that seems to have...
By David Solloway
Mar 157 min read


Urban Stages presents two "power" plays
There’s a moment in “The American Dream,” a play written by Juan Ramirez, when the coyote, or smuggler, played by Ramirez, tells the...
Claude Solnik
Mar 46 min read


Mint finds a masterpiece
"Garside’s Career" is a beautifully written, witty, heartfelt, hopeful play about a man who rises in politics.
Claude Solnik
Feb 166 min read


"When Gold turns Black," an Olympic gold calibre triumph
"When Gold Turns Black” is a fitting companion to that iconic photograph that blends just the right amount of personal and political.
Claude Solnik
Feb 115 min read


Engeman gives Elvis royal treatment
When did Elvis become “Elvis?” It’s a question that, really, helps us understand who he was and who we are, who he became as well as his...
Claude Solnik
Jan 3012 min read


"The Peak" Climbs Emotional Everest
We get a heartfelt meditation on life, loss, death and, most important, love.
Steven Barnett
Jan 277 min read


Hypocrisy proves hilarious in Eureka Day
It is a truly hilarious skewering of politically correct parenting.
Claude Solnik
Jan 27 min read


"The Prior 55," a beautifully written tragedy on the bayou
We find ourselves admiring the realistic, yet artistic portrayals of the two actors, and the poetic realism of the writing.
Claude Solnik
Dec 26, 20246 min read


"...Mason's Hole," a comic fantasy of the highest order
In “What Came Up from Mason's Hole,” a new play by Rick Rocha (TEETH and Stallions) and Patches Aloha (Chapo Trap House, Podcast About...
Claude Solnik
Dec 15, 20248 min read


"The Last Word" brings science alive
Staged as part of the Science in Theater Festival (SIT), The Last Word is based on the latest breakthroughs in cell engineering.
Kiri Calderon
Dec 6, 20243 min read


Broadway Gold in "The Hills of California"
A long time ago in an interview, Alan Alda was asked about lines he remembered, specific pieces of dialogue that stood out after so many...
Claude Solnik
Nov 29, 202416 min read


Orson's Shadow brings legends to life
There’s a famous saying that “All drama must remain on the stage,” and that’s certainly true in Austin Pendleton’s play “Orson’s Shadow”...
Claude Solnik
Nov 16, 20249 min read


Birds of a Feather double bill soars
(Photo credit: Bob Johnson) (Artwork credit: Bob Johnson) A farmhouse murder and a wacky blind date are the subjects of these one-act...
Darryl Reilly
Nov 8, 20243 min read


"Grief Dialogues: The Lab" exhilarating look at life, death and long lasting love
A couple are split up forever, when one is killed riding a motorcycle with the other. A soldier’s wife loses her wedding ring when she...
By David Solloway
Oct 31, 20248 min read


Despite stellar cast, "Walden" fails to launch
In "Walden," we get a space age soap opera with two sisters interested in one man.
Steven Barnett
Oct 30, 20248 min read


After stand up start, Another Shot scores
We soon realize that his drug of choice is denial and he chooses comedy over cure, setting the scene for a drama.
Steven Barnett
Oct 26, 20247 min read


Arresting drama about Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt’s 1933 arrest in Berlin is suspensefully dramatized in this eloquent, well-played historical drama.
Darryl Reilly
Oct 25, 20242 min read


"Rawshock" a searing, topical drama
Group therapy sessions are
threatened when a corporation acquires a hospital n this searing topical drama.
Darryl Reilly
Oct 25, 20243 min read

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