A sparkling ‘Design For Living’ by Pride Films and Plays
Noel Coward's 1932 "Design for Living," about an (eventual) menage a trois seems placid by today's standards, though it certainly got the knickers of the London theater censors in a...
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Image vs. person in ‘Lawd, the CVS is Burning’
Remember Toya Graham? She's the mother in Baltimore who, this past April, dragged her teenage son away from a group of young men who were heading out to protest the...
Steppenwolf for Young Adults’ production of ‘1984’ aims for the head
After the success of last year's "Animal Farm," Steppenwolf for Young Adults returns to the scene of the thought crime with Andrew White's adaptation of George Orwell's "1984," first produced...
African-American women’s lives — with a piano in the middle
Imagine an August Wilson play performed by the African American a cappella group Sweet Honey in the Rock, and you're getting close to the feeling evoked by Nambi E. Kelley's...
‘Handsome Animals’: Body image stories worth telling
In the age of the selfie, body dysmorphia is king. Then again — hating our physical containers dates back long before the invention of photography, let alone smartphones. Somewhere there's...
‘Madness of Edgar Allan Poe’: Walk through Poe’s darkness at Peabody Mansion
The weekend of a "blood moon" seems an auspicious time to open a show about the American master of horror. But since First Folio Theatre's "The Madness of Edgar Allan...
‘Butcher’ at Signal Ensemble: Damage from genocide goes too deep
Plays exploring the ragged sorrowful line between justice and vengeance have been around since the House of Atreus. But the mass genocides of the last 100 years have raised the...
‘Direct from Death Row The Scottsboro Boys’: A riveting play about infamous case
Long before Black Lives Matter, there were the Scottsboro Boys. And not long before there was "The Scottsboro Boys," there was "Direct from Death Row The Scottsboro Boys." If you...
Review: ‘Washer/Dryer’ a fun spin on romantic comedies
"I need my space" is as familiar as "It's not you, it's me" in the lexicon of troubled relationships. But what if actual, literal living space is the problem? That's...
50 shows in the next 90 days: Something for every taste on this list
Roll up the beach blankets and break out the warm blankets. Fall will be here before you can say "pumpkin spice" and that means a harvest of fine theater. Below...