SOMETHING ROTTEN! STILL FRESH

SOMETHING ROTTEN! STILL FRESH

God, I love theatre students! They are so frickin’ vivacious and eager to please — which makes them the perfect match for the musical Something Rotten!, which is all about entertainment. Something Rotten! is stupid — in the best (giddiest) way possible. In Karey...
NETWORK: MADDER THIS TIME

NETWORK: MADDER THIS TIME

I’m so much angrier now than I was when I first saw the movie Network — which is all about anger — in 1976. Many of us these days live in a perpetual state of political fear, frustration, and fury, which makes United Players’ decision to produce playwright Lee Hall’s...
WILDWOMAN: WAIT FOR IT

WILDWOMAN: WAIT FOR IT

This show won me over, but it took a while. The problems I had aren’t with the production, which is excellent, but with the script  —  although the source material is astonishing. Playwright Kat Sandler drew inspiration for Wildwoman from the fifteenth-century history...
HARM: GO

HARM: GO

Kelli Ogmundson delivers a perfect performance in this production. How often do I get to say that? Never? Every actor in town should see this piece of work. And so should everybody else who cares about theatre. In playwright Phoebe Eclair-Powell’s 70-minute monologue,...
FRANKLINLAND: TRAPPED IN DULL ABSTRACTION

FRANKLINLAND: TRAPPED IN DULL ABSTRACTION

Man, I was fighting to stay awake. On paper, Lloyd Suh’s script sounds like it might be interesting. In Franklinland, Suh has created a fantasia based on the relationship between Benjamin Franklin — the script calls him Ben — and his son William, who was born out of...