Theatre Reviews

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Written by Andrea Braun Tuesday, 18 June 2013 23:08

I figured I wouldn’t like it. Well, like Baby’s father says to Johnny Castle at the end of Dirty Dancing: “When I’m wrong, I say I’m wrong.”

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Written by Andrea Braun Tuesday, 18 June 2013 20:08

The most memorable thing about Six Degrees, I’m afraid, is its spawning of the game “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon,” in which celebrity connections are made. That is fun; the play, I’m sorry to say, is not.

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Written by Andrea Braun Friday, 14 June 2013 17:30

It just has a whole lot of words, words, words. But they are such beautiful ones that we can forgive the length of some scenes that almost beg to be cut down.

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Written by Janet Rhoads Saturday, 08 June 2013 16:59

From the minute Rachel York took the stage, she was as dazzling as the sequins on her first costume.

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Written by Andrea Braun Wednesday, 22 May 2013 21:32

Schlemiel decides there must be two Chelms in the world and that he has found the second, complete with a wife and children who look exactly like his.

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Written by Andrea Braun Tuesday, 14 May 2013 21:21

Much of the fun in a Monkey show has to do with comments and asides that have nothing to do with the source material—or at least not much.

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Written by Andrea Braun Wednesday, 08 May 2013 19:45

No little piece of cloth has elicited so much emotion since Desdemona’s, but there’s no shouting here—just the profound silence of deeply felt pain.

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Written by Andrea Braun Wednesday, 24 April 2013 20:03

It’s because of Sam Phillips that we had them all.

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Written by Andrea Braun Sunday, 21 April 2013 19:51

We live the central conceit that we have the same experiences over and over, to no end that we understand.

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Written by Andrea Braun Monday, 15 April 2013 20:07

The actors set the mood from the beginning, when Jane enters, holding a candle and singing a lament about a “poor orphan child.”

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Written by Andrea Braun Tuesday, 09 April 2013 20:57

The play’s genesis does disprove the old canard about too many cooks, because this is a rich and satisfying broth, indeed.

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Written by Andrea Braun Sunday, 24 March 2013 13:13

Matthew Lopez has written an absorbing examination of this time and these men as its representatives.