Get sensitive

The best show I’ve seen this week—the best show I’ve seen in many weeks—is The Art of Building a Bunker, which is playing here as part of the rEvolver Festival.  In this script, which was written by solo performer Adam Lazarus and director Guillermo...

Pack a rEvolver this weekend

The rEvolver Festival looks like the most likely place to have a good time in a theatre this weekend.  So far, I’ve only seen one show at rEvolver, Double Recessive, which imagines redheads as the world’s new pariahs. In its exploration of the political...

This week: Into the Woods we go—trailing caveats

The best show up right now is Fighting Chance Productions mounting of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s musical, Into the Woods, which is playing at the Jericho Arts Centre until May 16. Stephen Sondheim’s songs are crazily difficult to realize...

Foreign Radical and my Portland three-way

When I attended Theatre Conspiracy’s Foreign Radical, my fellow audience members voted—virtually unanimously—to select me as the most suspicious person there. Maybe that was because I’m big and 30 years older than the rest of them, so I stood out, or maybe...