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The P.O.W. and the GIRL Reviewed by Audrey Schlief The Sherry Theatre Through February 16 [Note: This review is part of the Z. Clark Branson/Stage Raw Equity and Inclusion Initiative for Young Journalists. Stage Raw staff are mentoring the young authors, as they build their professional resumes as arts journalists.] Katrina Wood’s lovely play, The P.O.W. […]
Accidental Death of an Anarchist Reviewed by Deborah Klugman Actors’ Gang Through March 9 RECOMMENDED: Dario Fo’s Accidental Death of an Anarchist premiered in Milan on December 5, 1970. Fo wrote this incendiary farce in response to the suspicious death a year earlier of an Italian railway worker in police custody — an anarchist named Pinelli […]
Love is Another Country Reviewed by Lara J. Altunian Coin & Ghost Through March 2 An ancient Greek tragedy remixed into a modern black woman’s tale, Lisa Marie Rollins’ Love is Another Country meditates on an endless cycle of violence through which the main characters struggle to find solace.Ethel May (Tyree Marshall) is a 1920s/30s-era brothel owner who regularly […]
Two Trains Running Reviewed by Stephen Fife Sophina Brown Through March 3 RECOMMENDED There’s a false narrative out there that Art is an elitist enterprise. It isn’t. When Art is good, it becomes part of your personal highlight reel, one of those experiences that you keep going back to and savoring. When Art is great, it feels […]
S.O.S. Reviewed by Stephen Fife The Wallis Studio Ensemble Through February 10 For those of us who have attended college or training school, the early 20s can be a time of confusion and dislocation. Most of our lives we have been part of a class, a group, a community — but now we’re out in the world […]
12 Angry Jurors Reviewed by Lara J. Altunian Surf City Theatre Company Through February 3 RECOMMENDED “Facts may be colored by the personality of the people that present them.” Juror #11 hit the nail on the head in playwright Reginald Rose’s Twelve Angry Men, first produced as a live television drama in 1954 before being adapted by Sidney Lumet into an […]
The P.O.W. and the Girl Reviewed by Iris Mann Sherry Theatre Through February 16 This tale of a young woman living with her grandfather, a British World War II vet suffering from PTSD, seems intriguing and full of promise. But the combination of a predictable story and a lackluster production leaves our expectations unfulfilled. What […]
The Diary of Anne Frank Reviewed by Lovell Estell III Dorie Theatre/Complex Through February 24 Some seventy plus years after it was first published, Anne Frank’s heartrending story still tugs irresistibly at the heart. Wendy Kesselman’s adaptation of the original play by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett has special significance for our highly contentious political […]
