“You should have starved yourself to death, before you let our son die.” This from the ghost of Minhee’s deceased husband. “I tried,” Minhee replies, quietly. Yikes. This is not a play for the faint of heart. Mia Chung‘s moving…
Author: John Olive
Eye Of The Lamb by the Workhaus Collective, performing at the Playwrights Center
Contemporary Iraq no longer exists. It has devolved into a nightmare of warring factions, tribes, militias, armies, clans and groups of insane people: Iran-affiliated Shia, Islamic State-affiliated Sunni, the demoralized but still well-armed Iraqi Army, Al-Qaeda-affiliated anti-Assad fighters, the Kurdish…
The Two Gentlemen Of Verona at the Jungle Theater
Is The Two Gentlemen Of Verona (at the Jungle Theater through March 27) William Shakespeare‘s first play? Possibly (scholars will never agree on this), but perhaps the honor belongs to The Comedy Of Errors or to The Taming Of The…
The Amish Project, in the Guthrie Theater’s Dowling Studio
The Amish Project (in the Guthrie’s Dowling Studio, through Feb 14) recounts disturbing events that occurred in Nickel Mines PA, on Oct 2, 2006: a troubled – make that insane – man, Ed Stuckey, entered an Amish school, released a…
Pericles at the Guthrie Theater
Who wrote Pericles? Scholars argue. Some claim that William Shakespeare wrote it all. Or that he wrote none of it. Or that he wrote half of it (the last half). Or that he collaborated on the play with the well-known…
Great Expectations at Park Square Theatre
Ah. Great Expectations. The most, arguably, beloved story by our most, arguably, beloved author, Charles Dickens. You know the plot (and if you don’t, well, go, quickly, to Park Square Theatre – the play runs through Feb 7 – and…
Dear World by Ten Thousand Things
Dear World (at Ten Thousand Things through Feb 7; various venues; please visit the TTT website for specific info) is decidedly un-glitzy. This despite a book (based on Jean Giraudoux’s The Madwoman Of Chaillot) by big-stage sentimentalists Jerome Lawrence and Robert…
Sunshine by Dark & Stormy Productions, performing in the old Grain Belt Brewery
Sunshine is having a terrible, no-good, very bad day. First, she works a long shift at the (sex) Club Paradise, dancing desultorily (and behind a dirty window) for pathetically lonely men, men who masturbate openly onto the concrete (one hopes)…
A Midwinter Night’s Revel by Walking Shadow Theatre Co., performing at Red Eye Theater
‘Tis the season. We at HowWasTheShow.com have avoided the holiday repeats and the treacly: A Christmas Carol, The Nutcracker, The Sound Of Mucous, The Wizard Of Oz, et al. But the Berglunds did visit Penumbra’s Black Nativity (they liked it).…
The Cocoanuts at the Guthrie Theater
Palimpsest theater. A palimpsest (as you undoubtedly know) is a manuscript in which the original text has been erased and new text written over it. Ah, but the original text is still visible. The Guthrie‘s hyperly wonderful The Cocoanuts is…