Randy Reyes has made a bold choice for his first production as Artistic Director of Theater Mu. Actually, that’s a bit of an understatement. Reyes is not only producing but directing his inaugural show—which is a world premiere—by a first-time…
Maple and Vine produced by Frank Theatre at Old Arizona
What if we could just go back to an earlier time, a simpler life, where things were a little more “black and white?” Say, 1955? Would it help us resolve issues in our lives, or would it really be going…
Tribes at the Guthrie Theater
Tribes by Nina Raine (at the Guthrie Theater, through November 10) fascinates most when addressing the nature of language: what is the connection between abstract language and the gloriously messy life it represents? And: is deaf signing a real language? …
Miss Saigon at the Ordway
Why do we go to the theater? For the acting. Actors amaze and thrill us with their uncanny ability to become something else, to overcome the pain and sorrow of their existence. To triumph, always, over the circumstances of their…
Interview: Randy Reyes
Accomplished actor/singer/director Randy Reyes has taken over, from founder Rick Shiomi, the artistic directorship of Mu Performing Arts. Randy is busy these days – the Mu handover occurred quite recently, plus he’s in the middle of directing Mu’s latest, Kung…
Displaced Hindu Gods: A Trilogy Of Plays at Mixed Blood Theatre
Aditi Brennan Kapil‘s trilogy Displaced Hindu Gods opens Mixed Blood Theatre‘s 2013-14 season; the plays run through Oct 27. HowWasTheShow.com sent its three theater reviewers (Janet Preus, Dominic Orlando and John Olive) to cover the Oct 5 opening. Each filed…
“Uncle Vanya” at The Guthrie
One of the strangest things to happen in the last season of “Breaking Bad”, AMC’s meth-fueled drama, is the role-switch (or apparent role-switch) of the two main characters. Walter White, desperate and stricken with cancer, goes from high-school chemistry teacher…
Interview: Aditi Brennan Kapil
Mixed Blood Theatre opens their season on Oct 5 with a trilogy – a trilogy! – of new plays by Aditi Brennan Kapil, Displaced Hindu Gods. DHG consists of: Brahmin/i, Shiv and The Chronicles of Kalki. Ms. Kapil is, as…
Nature Theatre Of Oklahoma, At The Walker Art Center
Alternately exhilarating and tedious, Nature Theatre of Oklahoma’s “Life and Times: Episode One” is, without a doubt, a one-of-a-kind experience. “Life and Times” is a sung-thru music-theatre piece, using as its libretto 16 hours of recorded audio—company member Kristin Worrall…