FL OnStage: Stepping Out to the Theatre
Review by Beverly Friend, American Theatre Critics Association member No dialogue! TIME STEP has no story! Just singing and dancing, dancing, dancing. Oh, it […]
Month: April 2018
Funny, Poignant “Red Bowl at the Jeffs” Deserves Your Nomination
Review by Karen Topham, American Theatre Critics Association member; photos by Montana Bruns What is the nature and meaning of friendship? How […]
Bad Girls: The Stylists Is a Cut Below the Rest
Review by Karen Topham, American Theatre Critics Association; photos by Karl Clifton-Soderstrom There are fine plays set in hair salons. Steel Magnolias comes […]
“Merchant On Venice” Shakespeare Adaptation Full of Wonderful Parts, But They Don’t Come Together
Review by Joe De Rosa; photos by Scott Dray What’s in a name? Just a quick warning. This review might be a […]
Northlight Mines “Beauty Queen” For All of Its Humor
Martin McDonagh’s The Beauty Queen of Leenane is somewhat difficult to “like.” It takes place in a rundown house in a rundown […]
“Mary’s Wedding” Is a Complex, Moving Ride
Review by Karen Topham, American theatre Critics association member; photos by First Folio Sometimes a play becomes such a powerful and emotional […]
The Rosenkranz Mysteries: Magic Meets Medicine
Review by Karen Topham, Americsan Theatre Critics Association member; photos by the Rosenkranz Mysteries “How did he do that?” This is the […]
Raven’s “The Gentleman Caller” Brings Tennessee Williams and William Inge to Life
Review by Karen Topham, American Theatre Critics Association member; photos by Michael Brosilow “One can never be 100% themselves unless they embrace […]
For a Wonderful, Hopeful Musical, Fire Up the “Spitfire Grill”
Review by Karen Topham, American Theatre Critics Association member; photos by Zeke Dolezalek Sometimes, these days, it seems as if we’re spiraling […]
“An Enemy of the People” and “Smart People”: Free Speech Gone Awry
Watching Writers Theatre’s Smart People and the Goodman’s An Enemy of the People back to back this weekend, I was struck by how much […]