REVIEW: In The Brownings, A Pair of Great Romantic Poets Work Blue
A terrific production and some caustic wit don’t quite add up to a play.
REVIEW: Eugene Onegin, Seen Through a Snowglobe
Despite exquisite moments, the Curtis production feels drained of emotional energy.
REVIEW: Making Your Family into Art in Azuka’s The Gap
Is Emma Goidel’s play theater or therapy? You’ll need to judge for yourselves.
REVIEW: The Wilma’s Blood Wedding Is A Marriage of Compromises
Having deconstructed Lorca’s play, this production can’t make it whole again.
THEATER REVIEW: TouchTones, The Phone Sex Musical—Sorry, Wrong Number
This limp, by-the-numbers musical at the Arden lacks not only an erotic charge, but even general interest
In Theatre Exile’s Ideation, Consultants Pitching for their Lives
The ideas fly fast, furious, and ominous in Aaron Loeb’s entertaining satire.
In The Swallowing Dark at Inis Nua, Action is Subjegated to Storytelling
Lizzie Nunnery’s earnest but inert play lacks a sense of forward momentum.
In Carousel at the Media Theatre, Life Lived Fully in a One-Horse Town
This production is small-scale, but often imaginative and satisfying.
O Festival Diary—Day IV, Part I: Sondra Radvanovsky in Recital
One of today’s top divas provided glamour and high-wattage vocalism.
THEATER REVIEW: Simpatico at McCarter Uneasily Straddles the American Dream
In Red Orchid’s dazzlingly odd production, the great Sam Shepard lives on.
