Tag: Behind the Curtain
“50 Shades! The Musical – The Original Parody.”
Taking over the Kirk Douglas Theater is the raucous “50 Shades! The Musical – The Original Parody.” Spoofing the 50 Shades of Grey trilogy...
Good production falls short of being great
Newly crowned king, Henry V has thrown off his wild ways as easily as he did the moniker Prince Hal, and with that he...
Talent, right elements make for entertaining play
“Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” by Christopher Durang is an absurd homage to just about every Chekov play ever written. Vanya and Masha...
Tough subject matter makes for interesting story
“The Firemen” in its premiere production by Tommy Smith, is an unthinkable and at times disturbing love story between a middle school employee, Miss...
‘Passion Play’ explores community tradition in three different settings
The passion play originated as far back as the Middle Ages and was used originally to preach the story of Christ. Over the years...
Revenge, conspiracy to murder fails produce to entertaining story
You know it’s a bad sign when the writer/director of the play you are about to watch gets up to inform the audience that...
One-woman show teaches lessons with grace, humility
In “Why I Died, A Comedy,” Katie Rubin examines that all too familiar yearning and need to discover something more: something that makes you...
Christmas classic is ambitious, yet almost brilliant
A Noise Within’s take on Charles Dickens’ immortal work “A Christmas Carol,” adapted for the stage by Geoff Elliott, is almost brilliant. This is...
“Creditors” takes audience on dark, engaging journey
David Greig’s translation of August Strindberg’s “Creditors” takes the audience on a dark journey through the psychological twists and turns of the after effects...
‘Royal Family’ becomes Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum
As Irving Berlin wrote, “There’s
no people like show people,”
and “The Royal Family” at
Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum
proves just that. “The Royal
Family” provides a glimpse into
the...
