There are a lot of things to think about after seeing Outside Mullingar. The new play by John Patrick Shanley (author of the fantastic Doubt) deals with themes of getting older, planning ahead for life, unrequited love, and death. It’s… Read More ›
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The Glass Menagerie
The Glass Menagerie is set in the small apartment of the fatherless Wingfield family, comprised of Amanda and her two children, Tom and Laura. Tom spends his days working a job at a shoe factory, scribbling stories and poems whenever… Read More ›
Macbeth
There’s a superstition in the theater world that saying the word “Macbeth” in a theater will lead to something bad happening to the production, rumored because real witches cursed the script. So either the PICT Classic Theatre company was very… Read More ›
Sons of War
There are countless stories about war. Some stories are about the effects war has on a country or on history. Others are more personal, about say how one man survived the worst time of his life. Then there are some… Read More ›
Doubt: A Parable
This week begins the second of a three week run for Little Lake Theater’s production of the 2004 play by John Patrick Shanley, Doubt: A Parable. The show, turned movie in 2008, illustrates the struggles of a Bronx parish priest and… Read More ›
Of Mice and Men
I grew up on a small farm. It wasn’t an “up at the crack of dawn to milk the cows” situation, but I’ve loaded my share of hay bales into the barn. I was not a true farmer in any… Read More ›
Bus Stop
Bus stops, those dreadful asylums for awkward stares and weather talk, are not a place of insight, a place of harbor, nor a place for incredibly meaningful conversation. Odd, then, that everybody seems to know everything about each other and… Read More ›
Parade
Sitting down to write this review of Parade, the one word I can’t get out of my head is “injustice”. As I watched this fabulous production about a man arrested and charged for a crime he did not commit in… Read More ›
Tamara
Every time I see a show presented by the Quantum Theatre I am full of compliments about how creatively they use unique spaces to set the feel for their productions. Well their current production of Tamara has taken that factor… Read More ›
Romance
I find it difficult to talk about David Mamet. I’m not well-versed in his works, having read Glengarry Glen Ross in college and having trouble talking about it then. Now I’ve seen Romance and I’m still struggling to find my… Read More ›