Kerry Reid

In Season 3 of NBC’s afterlife comedy, “The Good Place,” the quartet of humans who’ve dubbed themselves “The Soul Squad” find out (spoiler alert!) that getting into heaven has become...

The terrorist murders at the mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand cast an understandable pall Friday night at the opening of Silk Road Rising’s latest offering. But Karim Nagi’s spirited solo...

Longtime patrons of Black Ensemble Theater are probably familiar with the post-curtain speech sometimes heard there. “Going to Black Ensemble is just like going to church — because there’s a...

Chaos is dull. That which goes right is poetry,” declares Gabriel Syme, the protagonist in G.K. Chesterton’s 1908 metaphysical/satirical novel, “The Man Who Was Thursday.” But in Bilal Dardai’s nimble...

As sleet and snow slashed the air outside on Tuesday night, a theatrical fire blazed onstage at the Den Theatre. In “The Total Bent,” the polymath known as Stew, perhaps...

Midway through Paula Vogel’s “How I Learned to Drive,” a man gives fishing lessons to an unseen child. He describes the pompano as “a very shy, mercurial fish,” and advises...

The grungy motel in the middle of nowhere is as much a trope for American psychological thrillers as the gloomy country manse in English murder mysteries. From “Psycho” to “Bug,”...

Joseph Zettelmaier has become something of a playwright in residence for suburban First Folio. In addition to a trilogy of plays that skillfully reimagined classic horror stories about Frankenstein, Dracula...