“It is really hard to talk objectively about history,” a character states during Roe, which continues at Horizon Theatre through June 12. And how true that is, given that history is still being written about the matter at this very moment. Just a week before this exuberant and exhaustive (and sometimes exhausting) production of Lisa…
As the title character in the new play Hometown Boy learns, you can go home again. But sometimes you shouldn’t. The secrets that lie at the center of the world premiere drama, onstage at Actor’s Express through November 28, are deceptively hidden within the early dialogue. As they come out, they threaten to split apart…
Hometown Boy, a Southern play filled with juicy secrets and quick wit, receiving its world premiere November 3 at Actor’s Express, begins with a young man returning to his father’s home after a decade, only to find the doors locked. He spends much of the first scene trying to find his way in. Playwright Keiko…
Many theaters spend the holiday season rotating through A Christmas Carol, It’s a Wonderful Life and such, but for the past three years, Theatrical Outfit has immersed itself in Jane Austen’s world. It first produced Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, an imagining of the fates of the sisters in Pride and Prejudice, in 2017. In that…
In a time where it seems everyone has a newsfeed, it is hard to imagine a period where living “off the fat of the land” was the American Dream. Less than a century ago, during the Great Depression, not far from what is now Silicon Valley, men and women tried to make an honest living and…
Here’s the thing about “The Taming of the Shrew.” Audiences usually leave a production talking about the three or four big slam-bang throwdowns between Katherina and Petruchio, whether the thrill they elicit is outweighed by their very uncontemporary tone, and whether the actors were sufficiently violent or loud or loving. But those scenes, classic and…
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