By Venus Zarris There’s a lot to like about Babes with Blades enthusiastic production of Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet. Plucky may seem like a cheapening description, but I use it here in its most positive[…]
Month: March 2011
The Goat Or, Who Is Sylvia? opening @ The Greenhouse Theatre Center
The Goat Or, Who Is Sylvia? Martin is an architect at the pinnacle of his career, with a great marriage and happy family. What could go wrong? This winner of the 2002 Tony Award for[…]
El Nogalar opening @ Goodman Theatre
El Nogalar Set amid the explosive drug wars in present-day Northern Mexico, El Nogalar is the story of the Galvin family’s struggle to hold on to their homestead—and their precarious social status—before it slips away.[…]
Dirty Blonde opening @ Theater Wit
Dirty Blonde laudia Shear’s hilarious and touching play weaves together the rise and fall of Mae West, the legendary star of stage and screen, with the awkward romance of Jo and Charlie, two Mae West[…]
The Woman in Black opening @ First Folio Theatre
The Woman in Black Proud and solitary, Eel Marsh House surveys the windswept reaches of the salt marshes beyond Nine Lives Causeway. Arthur Kipps, a junior solicitor, is summoned to attend the funeral of Mrs[…]
Death and the Powers, The Robots’ Opera opening @ Harris Theater
Death and the Powers, The Robots’ Opera Death and the Powers is a one-act, full evening work which tells the story of Simon Powers, a rich, successful inventor, who wishes to perpetuate his existence beyond[…]
Soul One opening @ National Pastime Theater
Soul One A thought provoking comedy about a rock star who regresses to his past lives and discovers ancient memories and the source of his soul’s suffering. Along for the ride are his group of[…]
From Generation to Generation opening @ Stage 773
From Generation to Generation From Generation to Generation tells the story of Rose Lieberman, a very charming and lovable Jewish woman who wants to leave a lasting legacy for her unborn granddaughter. Rose is ecstatic[…]
The Hot L Baltimore opening @ Steppenwolf Theatre
The Hot L Baltimore The Hotel Baltimore used to be the swankiest place in town—now it has a date with the wrecking ball. Eviction notices just went out to its residents, who live on the[…]
Orlando – REVIEW
By Venus Zarris In a recent e-mail, a dear friend wrote … “Do you sometimes feel that, like Kurt Vonnegut’s character Billy Pilgrim in Slaughterhouse Five, you have come unstuck in time? I do. Do[…]