“Have you accepted Wonder Woman into your heart?” the “Girl” (one of our fearless narrators) asks. The answer had better be Yes, because Lasso Of Truth is all about WW – how she was created, her place in American culture,…
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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…
Feast Of Wolves, Workhaus Collective performing at the Southern Theater
Feast Of Wolves, a fierce and powerful drama by Alan M. Berks, is an adaptation of Aeschylus‘s Orestia Trilogy (Workhaus Collective performing, this time, at the Southern, thru Nov 15). You know, the delightful play that details the death of…
The Reagan Years, The Workhaus Collective performing at The Playwrights Center
Do you, like me, remember the 1980s as a heady combination of amnestic hedonism and unapologetic avarice and acquisitiveness? If so, I bet you’ll enjoy Dominic Orlando‘s zippily paced The Reagan Years, a celebration (if that’s an appropriate word) of…
Lake Untersee, produced by the Workhaus Collective at Illusion Theater
Workhaus Collective begins its season with “Lake Untersee,†a new play by Joe Waechter. Playwrights’ Center artistic director Jeremy Cohen must feel strongly about the talents of this young playwright and served as director. He’s on the right track; the…
Kill Me Don’t Go by the Workhaus Collective performing at the Playwrights Center
Looking for something congenial? Sweet-tempered and entertaining? A play to reinforce your values, to send you strolling into the chilly evening, smiling, “Why, yes, I know those people well. They’re just like me.” If this is what you require I…
The Mill at The Playwrights’ Center
The Mill, a new play by International Falls, Minn., native Jeannine Coulombe presented at The Playwrights’ Center by The Workhaus Collective, looks at what it really means to live in a town that is dependent on one major industry and…
Interview: Jeannine Coulombe
It doesn’t rain but it pours: playwright Jeannine Coulombe has two major productions opening within a week. The first, The Mill, produced by Workhaus Collective, performing (as always) at the Playwrights Center, opens this Friday, April 20 and closes May…
Flesh And The Desert by Workhaus Collective
In Flesh And The Desert (Workhaus Collective performing at the Playwrights Center, through Jan 28), playwright Carson Kreitzer doesn’t concern herself with the air-conditioned glitter of contemporary Las Vegas – the Bellagio, the Venetian, pot-bellied cowboys meandering through the neo-fascist…
A Short Play About 9/11 by Workhaus Collective
Nine-eleven. It’s no longer just a date, it’s code, for an impossible-to-describe national catastrophe. Even at this remove nine-eleven remains a series of jangled images: a jet plane slamming into a tall building. Conservatively dressed businessmen hurtling to their deaths…