Bioflyer Productions doesn’t stray far from the Broadway version — should it?
Review of The Importance of Being Earnest
The more shows I see Montford’s intrepid players undertake, the more fond of them I become. It’s community theater at its best, as far as I’m concerned. The vibe with the audience is supportive and enthusiastic, and you can’t help but feel that everyone, both onstage and off, is having a tremendously good time.
Review of Dead Man’s Cell Phone
The play is good entertainment, full of comic quirks and flights of fancy, and yet it also feels intelligent and profound. If that profundity turns out to be less real than imagined, well, you can’t expect to have your lobster bisque and eat it too.
Review of Corney Island Carnival Sideshow Extravaganza
Seduction Sideshow wants you to think about sex; or, rather, reconsider what sexiness is.
Review of Chipola at 35Below
Waylon Wood’s often lyrical dialogue and his understanding of, and compassion for, his characters compensate for structural deficiencies. It helps, too, that each role is perfectly cast and rendered, and that strong acting makes up for the less-believable touches.
Review of The Sloppy Joe Circus
Middle School is a circus, right? But The Runaway Circus and the Loose Cabooses make it fun.
Review: “The Trunk Show” by Moving Women
The Trunk Show is an evocative and powerfully moving concert of modern dance by Moving Women. Now at N.C. Stage.
Review of The Laudanum Express
The dazzling entertainers of Bootstraps Burlesque almost max out their gifts.
Review of Alice Underground
To describe Dark Horse Theatre’s Alice Underground is tricky business without giving too much of the play away. On the other hand, one would be hard pressed to say exactly what does take place in this visually lush, creatively rich, brilliantly-acted performance.
Gather at the Garage for Anam Cara
The up-and-coming theatre company hosts an evening of art, dance, a good-looking raffle and more.
Review of The Boxcar Children
The first volume of The Boxcar Children series—a fairly realistic tale of four children orphaned during the Depression, fending for themselves until reconciled with their rich, paternal grandfather—was published in 1924, but didn’t achieve true popularity until it was reissued in a revised version in 1942.
Go see Fever/Dream at Warren Wilson College
I got a call this morning from a man who knows great theatre. The current production at Warren Wilson, on through Sunday, is not to miss, he says.
Review of Eat Your Heart Out
The most-recent show from Bombs Away Cabaret? Without ever taking itself seriously, it put the moon’s light of love back in the sorely abused word “amateur,” the burla (“joke”) back in burlesque, and the broad back in…well…broad.
Review of True West
The two leads have teamed before, and are well-known and much-appreciated as a light-comic duo. In this play, they also explore dark recesses that may surprise those familiar with their more farcical romps.
Review of Short Order Durang
There’s something to be said for knowing one’s place in the world, and a show presented at “The Usual Joli Grey Admiral’s Vault, Social Aid, Yacht Club, and Speakeasy off Broadway” is one that is definitely not afraid to embrace the local.
Review of Fringe on Wheels
Put your brain on hold. It’s going to be a bumpy night.
Review of Fringe Audio at the 2010 Fringe Festival
Well Dada my Dada: what does it mean these days for art to be “avant-garde”?
Review of Asheville Fringe Festival: Fringe in a (Black)box
Is the festival pushing boundaries as one might expect?
Review of The Beautiful Johanna
It’s not the Dublin you’d find today, or even the Dublin of The Troubles. In David Brendan Hopes’ The Beautiful Johanna, Dublin is an apocalyptic nightmare, riddled by bomb blasts, machine gun bursts, and — perhaps most frightening of all — fire. Yet the subject of the play is neither horror nor hell. It’s love.
Review of The Big Bang at ACT
The aerobic performance of The Big Bang‘s two actors and their sheer indulgence in the silly is a wonderful prescription for the mid-winter blahs.
Review of SciFi-A-GoGo
Deep into its second decade, the neo-burlesque movement appears to be approaching a critical mass of performers that combine the traditional, early-twentieth century blend of comedy, music and striptease with a strong contemporary sensibility.