Walking Shadow Theatre Company takes on a centuries-old mystery in a modernized version of Schiller’s Mary Stuart. On an art deco-suggestive unit set, courtiers in dark suits stride in and out with their urgent pleadings before the Queen. Elizabeth, played…
Author: Janet Preus
Push Button, Get Bacon produced by The Recovery Party at Bryant-Lake Bowl
The Recovery Party returns to the Bryant-Lake Bowl with another serving of Push Button, Get Bacon. Sketches and satire, but no bacon. You’ll have to wait until the absolute last moment (no, not yet, not that moment… ok, now, this…
The Very Hungry Caterpillar produced by Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia at Children’s Theatre Company
Children’s Theatre Company is ready to brighten up a cold, dark winter evening – with black light. And what a dandy way it is to bring the stories of children’s book illustrator and writer, Eric Carle, to life on stage.…
Xtreme Theatre Smackdown, produced by Theatre Unbound
It’s called the Xtreme Theatre Smackdown: Six playwrighting teams, a collection of actors and directors, and all y’all out there who provided input on the producing company’s (Theatre Unbound) website. Judging by the size of the audience, that was a…
Black Nativity: A Holiday Concert at Penumbra Theatre
If you see one Christmas show this year, pick Black Nativity: A Holiday Concert. It’s absolutely wonderful, and it will make you feel wonderful, too. Penumbra Theatre is much more than Langston Hughes’ Black Nativity but it is the show…
A Christmas Pudding at Open Window Theatre
Are you not the type for irreverence? Not in the mood for a blockbuster Broadway show? Wondering what happened to wholesome, traditional Christmas variety shows? Open Window Theatre has an answer for you. “A Christmas Pudding,†adapted by David Birney…
Online Journalism by the Theater of Public Policy at Huge Improv
The Theater of Public Policy. Sounds auspicious, doesn’t it? Either they do very serious stuff, or they make fun of very serious stuff. Actually, they do both. Monday night’s “Online Journalism†at Huge Improv Theater started with a casual interview…
Ghost Brothers of Darkland County, State Theater
“Ghost Brothers of Darkland County,†billed a “supernatural blues and roots musical,†is the creation of author Stephen King, and musicians John Mellencamp and T Bone Burnett. Clearly the writers have the credentials to write a) about the supernatural, and…
For Sale by The Moving Company at the Lab Theater
“What would you call that?†my faithful theater mate asked. “It’s an interactive, semi-improvisational comedy,†I answered, putting the words together slowly. “Oh,†he said, “It’s sort of hard to describe, isn’t it? Really funny, though.†And that’s it in…
Baby Case at the History Theatre
It was a dark and stormy night – quite literally – when I saw the History Theatre’s production of “Baby Case,†a dark and stormy musical retelling of the “trial of the century,†as it was dubbed. The kidnapping and…