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Month: October 2014
Photo Set: Pearl Jam, 10/19/14
33 Variations at Park Square Theatre
Moisés Kaufman‘s 33 Variations (at Park Square Theatre through Nov 2) is a pool-of-light play. Played on a jumble of interlocking platforms, the play’s action takes place in apartments, offices, hospital waiting rooms, lecture halls, in New York, in Germany. Which…
A Steady Rain in the Guthrie’s Dowling Studio
In the case of A Steady Rain (in the Guthrie’s Dowling Studio through Nov 2), I must declare a prejudice: I dislike past tense material. Plays that depend on long set speeches about occurrences in the past violate, imho, ye…
Master Class produced by Theater Latte Da at McPhail Center for Music
Imagine sitting as an observer in a master class taught by Maria Callas, the enormously gifted and equally controversial singer who literally changed 20th century opera in her relatively short lifetime. This is the world we’re part of in Theater…
Class of 85 produced by Collide Theatrical Dance at the Southern Theater
Collide Theatrical Dance has done it again. No, they have outdone themselves. Artistic Director Regina Peluso’s creation, “Class of ’85,†may be campy with an airy premise, but the quality of the dancing and singing is so good that the…
Colossal at Mixed Blood Theatre
What a gutsy title: Colossal (Mixed Blood, through Nov 9). Think what it implies: size, power, endurance, maleness, calculated violence, theatricality. A heady celebration of the game of football – and it is; football is truly one of the greatest…
Romeo and Juliet produced by Ten Thousand Things Theater Co.
What Ten Thousand Things Theatre Company (TTT) does consistently well is to dramatize what is timeless in a play. In this case, the play is “Romeo and Juliet,†one that’s been reimagined perhaps more than any other play. But under…
Seedfolks by the Children’s Theatre Company
In the affecting Seedfolks (Childrens Theatre Company, through Nov 16), the central metaphor is established early, and the play (adapted from a novel by Paul Fleischman; by whom the program provides no clue) never deviates from it: the garden. Planted…
“Miss Julie†produced by Theatre Coup d’Etat at the American Swedish Institute
“You’re strange,†Jean says. “Everything is strange … life … people,†Miss Julie answers. So begins the interplay between the aristocratic young woman and her father’s valet in Theatre Coup d’Etat’s production of August Strindberg’s “Miss Julie.†With the audience…