Theater Review

When a play moves beyond itself and becomes so engrossing that all else falls away, it’s almost alchemical. No one is quite sure how it happens, but all can feel it when it does.  

The play-within-a-play structure works beautifully as playwright  Ira Levin takes us on a succession of plot twists too numerous too count and too cunning to predict.  

The production a has so much going for it—fabulous actors, beautiful set, excellent direction—that if you fail to make it to the Alton Little Theater, you’ll have only yourself to blame.  

Anger seems to be the constant undercurrent among the actors, especially during the first act, despite talk of happy times and of liking one another.

If we had a person like Francis in the world today, would we listen to him or her any more than the Sultan does in Hickenlooper’s play?

A one-woman show is work and Ensler makes it look like a day in the park.

Himes assembled a top-notch cast and Burwinkel gave the actors a breathtaking and cleverly designed set to help tell the story.

Annie is a story that the little girl in all of us can appreciate.

In today’s world of “creative nonfiction,” the way in which personal stories are told seems to have become more fluid. “This is what happened to me” is the unwritten preface, “no matter what the facts […]

By David Sedaris The Lemming Armada December 16, 2005