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Theatre
Wednesday, October 14 2009
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
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
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
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
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
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, June 2 2009
Wednesday, April 8 2009
Monday, February 9 2009
Friday, January 23 2009
Friday, January 16 2009
Tuesday, June 17 2008
Wednesday, November 18 2009
Thursday, November 5 2009
Tuesday, October 27 2009
Monday, October 26 2009
Thursday, October 15 2009
Thursday, October 8 2009
Monday, October 5 2009
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Wednesday, March 18 2009
By Alice Singleton
The Neo Futurists take what may be O’Neill’s most gut-wrenching work and make dry hijinks from inception to final bow.
Friday, June 27 2008
By Marijeta Bozovic
Beckett’s dramatic work has been largely viewed as Theater of the Absurd but make no mistake, Endgame is Waiting for Godot's evil twin.
Friday, June 6 2008
By Barbara Foster and Michael Foster
A predecessor to virtually all stage and screen sirens, Menken thumbed her nose at the Victorian fetish for decorum that deformed the female figure, and celebrated her body electric, firm and active before being wasted from typhus or riddled by bullets.
Friday, May 30 2008
By Justin Follin
I felt as if a toy box had been opened and I got to spend the week playing with everything inside. It felt surreal, no, sub-real; toying with communication and twisting conventions.
Friday, October 30 2009
By Roland Laird
Film adaptations from black masterpieces -- and the Chitlin Circuit -- are rejuvenating America's Black Arts Movement.
(more Write Black at You)
Friday, September 4 2009
By Mark Reynolds
Jump into that ’59 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz with the maxed-out tailfins, contemplate what an original Barbie doll could fetch on eBay, and enjoy this roll call of Reasons Why Everything Changed in 1959.
(more Negritude 2.0)
Friday, May 1 2009
By L.B. Jeffries
Like Edwin S. Porter realizing that a series of shots was how you structured a film, games have to abandon the presumption that they need to obey a linear narrative or controlled message and just let the player loose.
(more Moving Pixels)
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