“Dying is easy,” went the famous (and quite possibly apocryphal) last words of the famous actor. “Comedy is hard.” Indeed, and if you want to glean a sense of just how difficult stage comedy can be to pull off, check…
Month: February 2012
“An Ideal Husband,” produced by Walking Shadow Theatre Company at Red Eye Theater
Walking Shadow Theatre Company doesn’t produce period plays, typically, but its artistic directors have had Oscar Wilde’s “An Ideal Husband†in the back of their minds for quite a while, I was told. They pulled it out at just the…
Photo Set: Craig Finn with Mount Moriah at the Triple Rock Social Club 2/4/12 and Treehouse In-Store 2/5/12
Slasher at Urban Samurai, performing at the Sabes Jewish Comunity Center
Slasher (Urban Samurai, performing at the Sabes Jewish Community Center, through Feb 18) would make a better movie. Playwright Allison Moore‘s premise is terrific: director Marc Hunter has cast Sheena as “the last girl” – the lead, in other words…
Dial M for Murder at the Jungle Theater
Welcome back to the days of civilized murder and mayhem, done with style by people who wear dinner jackets and sip brandy in an elegant gold-toned living room. This is the world recreated at the Jungle Theater for Frederick Knott’s…
End Of The Rainbow at the Guthrie Theater
To his credit, in End Of The Rainbow (at the Guthrie, through March 11) playwright Peter Quilter refuses to give us the “pretty” Judy Garland, the achingly luminous singer who wowed us in The Wizard Of Oz (age 17), A…