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YOU USED TO CALL ME MARIE: ALCHEMY

YOU USED TO CALL ME MARIE: ALCHEMY

Something alchemical is going on here: You used to call me Marie… sustains itself longer than logic tells me it should. The play’s success doesn’t last all the way to the end of its 90 minutes, but there are significant forces at work here. Tai Amy Grauman’s...
THIS IS HOW WE GOT HERE: Indirectly

THIS IS HOW WE GOT HERE: Indirectly

I wasn’t very engaged — I checked my watch a couple of times — and then tears were streaming down my face. For me this production of Keith Barker’s This Is How We Got Here took a sharp U-turn at about the 60-minute mark of its 80-minute playing time. It takes a while...
PARIFAM: Come Back for Act 2

PARIFAM: Come Back for Act 2

A better play is trying to emerge here, but you’ll only know that if you stick around for Act 2. In Canadian-Iranian playwright Aki Yaghoubi’s debut script Parifam, the eponymous central character is an architect who’s building Iranian museums in major cities around...
TAKE THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL

TAKE THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL

Director Ron Reed’s production of The Trip To Bountiful is consistently tender and nuanced. It’s a thing of beauty. I encourage you to see it. In Horton Foote’s script, which premiered in 1953, Mrs. Carrie Watts engineers an escape from the cramped apartment in...