In case you missed it last year, “Disenchanted!†produced by Casting Spells Productions has returned for a pre-holidays run at the Illusion Theater. Bright, clever and all in good fun, this modern take on the heroines of classic children’s Disney…
Grounded by Frank Theatre, performing at the Playwrights Center
“You are the blue,” the Pilot in Grounded (Frank Theatre performing at the Playwrights Center, through Nov 23) intones and we really feel it. Shooting and swooping and soaring through the sky, the freedom, the power of it. To be…
The House on Mango Street produced by Park Square Theatre at the Andy Boss Stage
Park Square Theatre celebrated the opening of its new Andy Boss Thrust Stage with “The House on Mango Street,†an adaptation by Amy Ludwig of Sandra Cisneros’ book. True to the original, the play dances from one episode to another…
Photo Set: Boy & Bear at the Varsity, 10/22/14
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…