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...
DANCEBOY: WHAT’S THE PROBLEM?

DANCEBOY: WHAT’S THE PROBLEM?

I have very little to say about Danceboy because, as far as I can tell, there isn’t much to it. In Danceboy, writer and performer Munish Sharma tells us about his lifelong love of dancing, which started when he was a toddler and Bollywood movies taught him that “This...
HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK: WHERE ART THOU?

HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK: WHERE ART THOU?

There are moments in this production that, on their own, would be worth the price of admission. And there’s a downright bracing vigor in this stripped-down version of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. There’s also something missing: the central character. Words, not movement, are...