Recent Theatre Reviews

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Wednesday, October 14 2009

Animal Crackers: 18 September-25 October 2009 - Chicago

By Alice Singleton

Eighty years have passed since the Broadway debut of this work and another national economic crying time greets the Goodman’s production, but we can laugh until we pass out and forget our troubles in the meantime.

Thursday, May 21 2009

Mary Stuart: 20 April 2009 - Broadhurst Theatre, New York

By Rachel Balik

Portrayed by the explosively accessible Janet McTeer, Mary Stuart demands our attention, lures our senses, and holds our hearts with a blend of power and tenderness

Sunday, April 12 2009

Pangs of the Messiah

By Alice Singleton

Lerner's characters lean to one-dimension; their humanity never makes its presence known as they perform high acts of cruelty and treason, even amongst one another.

Wednesday, April 8 2009

Magnolia

By Alice Singleton

As anyone who’s attempted to shake themselves loose from a diseased family tree can tell you, it’s not the branches that eternally grasp and devour the soul; it’s the root that can never be excised.

Thursday, February 12 2009

Eugene O’Neill’s “The Hairy Ape”

By Alice Singleton

It’s as if O’Neill had a fever dream of our present times as we too, fear we are little more than hairy apes.

Friday, February 6 2009

Eugene O’Neill’s ‘Desire Under the Elms’

By Alice Singleton

This is allegory for the modern reality-show line-up – its classic Jerry Springer and Maury Povich on perpetual familial loop.

Tuesday, January 20 2009

Eugene O’Neill’s Zona de Guerra (In the Zone)

By Alice Singleton

At the time this was authored, Germany’s Kaiser was decimating young soldiers with mustard gas, American organized crime was providing an economy for the neglected ethnic masses ... not much has changed since.

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