Washington Post
Woolly Mammoth's Ribald Period Piece Drags Out the Joke
"Measure for Pleasure" is a 100-meter dash of a gag, stretched to the length of an Olympic marathon. The notion in this bawdy comedy of manners by playwright David Grimm is that while the year is 1751, the sensibility belongs to 2008. To wit: Gay men stride demonstratively out of the closet, and...
'The Bridge of Bodies': Quest for Identity in Haiti
AIDS and voodoo are part of the stereotype of Haiti that young Marie-Therese frequently encounters growing up in Florida. She's a Haitian immigrant who hasn't been to her homeland since her mother whisked her out at an early age; her own history has been carefully hidden from her.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Sideshow: 'GWTW' will soon be gone
Playwright has too-heavy a hand
Though the title of People's Light and Theatre's I Have Before Me a Remarkable Document Given to Me by a Young Lady From Rwanda is unwieldy, Sonja Linden's 2003 work is compact. Written for two people, a white man and black woman, the play straddles three countries, a genocide, and 100 years of history by focusing - to its detriment - mostly on the present.
Not with a bang, but a puerile monologue
Nice guys finish last. Fat girls finish laster. Nice fat guys finish lastest. So we learn from the Neil LaBute trilogy, starting with The Shape of Things, continuing with Fat Pig, and concluding with this MCC Theatre world premiere of reasons to be pretty. Amusing, insightful, and slimy - the LaBute usual - this newest installment charting the desperate and vile misunderstandings between the sexes is also disappointing, despite some terrific acting.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Stage Review: Complex drama drives 'Eastburn Avenue'
It's impossible not to take sides in the poignant family drama of "Eastburn Avenue," a new musical by Pittsburghers Marcus Stevens and Douglas Levine having its world premiere at Playhouse Rep. ...
Baltimore Sun
Embracing outdoor nature of Shakespearean plays
Boston Globe
The spirit of 'Mischief' lies in flights of fancy
Emperor Norton's Stationary Marching Band calls its production "Mischief in the Machine" a "circus folktale
Providence Journal
Fine Fats Waller by the sea
Don’t go looking for much in the way of a plot when it comes to Ain’t Misbehavin’, the 1970s revue that pays homage to jazz great Fats Waller. It’s more concert with minimal staging than standard musical.
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