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Driver’s Seat Reviewed by Julia Lloyd-GeorgeTheatre 68 Arts ComplexThrough November 13In 2022, the one-woman show is now a theatrical phenomenon well-trodden enough to produce a successful satire literally called One-Woman Show by Liz Kingsman. While I haven’t seen this particular show yet (it looks hilarious), I thought a lot about this trend while absorbing Driver’s Seat […]
WET: A DACAmented JourneyReviewed by Martίn HernándezThe Greenway Court TheatreThrough November 13RECOMMENDEDDeferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, is the Orwellian term for the Obama-era policy that, under certain conditions, currently shields over 600,000 undocumented persons from deportation. Brought to the U.S. as children and now mostly adults, some did not even know their history […]
House of Spirits: The Tale of Vaughan HallReviewed by Socks WhitmoreMeyer2Meyer at Casa VertigoThrough October 31RECOMMENDED A skeletal creature made of branches chitters at you from the corner. A veiled woman with empty eye sockets walks the halls with her arms outstretched. A humanoid owl solemnly hands you a burning torch and gestures for you to […]
The Inheritance Part 1 and Part 2Reviewed by Dana MartinGeffen PlayhouseThrough November 27RECOMMENDEDMatthew López’s sprawling saga, The Inheritance Part 1 and Part 2, is an artistically refined and emotionally raw examination of modern gay life in the aftermath of the AIDS epidemic. The Geffen’s season opener has seismic power that won’t be soon forgotten.A languishing […]
According to the Chorus Reviewed by Deborah KlugmanThe Road Theatre on Magnolia Through Dec. 11Arlene Hutton’s new dramedy, According to the Chorus, promises much. Set in 1984 and billed as a fly-on-the-wall peep at the rivalry between a group of Broadway chorus dancers and the women who dress them, the play also touches on the loss […]
All in the TimingReviewed by Julia Lloyd-GeorgeThe Zephyr TheatreThrough November 20David Ives’ 1993 collection of six comic one-act plays, All In The Timing, is a mixed bag of sketches that are mostly, believe it or not, concerned with the coincidences, missed connections, and alternate realities implied by a single moment. Timing, comic or otherwise, is […]
The Atheist MotherReviewed by Martίn HernándezThe Brickhouse TheatreThrough November 13Madalyn Murray O’Hair was a force of nature even before the 1963 Supreme Court decision —brought on by her lawsuit in conjunction with a similar one — banned prayer in public schools. A reader of the Bible at twelve years old, O’Hair grew convinced of its […]
Ubu the King Reviewed by Terry MorganThe Actors’ GangThrough November 19When the young artists of the newly formed company The Actors’ Gang did a midnight show of Alfred Jarry’s Ubu the King in 1982, informed by punk rock and an anger against the Reagan administration, I doubt that any of their number imagined that the troupe […]
