THE SOUND INSIDE: LISTEN TO IT

THE SOUND INSIDE: LISTEN TO IT

Playwright Adam Rapp’s The Sound Inside is an ambitious, literate mystery. For me, it’s about art and reality, loneliness and responsibility. But one of the beauties of the play is that it will be interpreted differently depending on what individual audience members...
THE HOBBIT: SORT OF

THE HOBBIT: SORT OF

In The Hobbit, novelist JRR Tolkein creates a textured, credible, and high-stakes fantasy world, but all of that is missing in Kim Selody’s stage adaptation and there’s not much to replace it. Just two actors perform the whole thing. Tim Carlson’s core character — and...
TOM CREAN – DISCOVERING ANTARCTICA: WHY?

TOM CREAN – DISCOVERING ANTARCTICA: WHY?

There’s nothing there. I’m not talking about Antarctica; I’m talking about Aidan Dooley’s script for his solo show Tom Crean – Discovering Antarctica. It’s not as though the actual history isn’t rich; a lot happened. Tom Crean, an Irish sailor in the English...