In ‘Undressed,’ moments of naked truth
It's a long way from Broadway to Kingsbury Avenue. But at one point in "Undressed," the new sketch show at the Mission Theater, the echoes of Alison Bechdel's "Fun Home"...
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Sharp edges in Hypocrites’ ‘Three Sisters’
The Prozorov sisters pine for Moscow as their world turns Paris Green. Throughout Geoff Button's cunning and muscular production of "Three Sisters" with The Hypocrites, verdant shades reminiscent of the...
‘Lips Together, Teeth Apart’: Secrets spill out over a July 4th weekend
So much depends upon a red child's wagon, glazed with saltwater beside the white neurotics. True, William Carlos Williams doesn't figure into Terrence McNally's 1991 play "Lips Together, Teeth Apart,"...
‘The Grown-Up’: Self-conscious scenes from a life
As those of us who have recently reached the midcentury point know all too well, when those older folks from your childhood told you "it all goes so fast," they...
Financial crisis is timeless in ‘American Clock’
In a New York Times article on April 17 titled "Why Americans Don't Want to Soak the Rich," writer Neil Irwin pointed out that "Americans' desire to soak the rich...
‘Sounds So Sweet’: Memories of girl groups at Black Ensemble
Ernestine Harris, the matriarch of a music-loving family in small-town Mississippi, has left this earthly realm. No fan of the typical weepy memorial, she's charged her loved ones with throwing...
‘Red Handed Otter’ an ode to the creatures we lean on
Years ago, the humorist Roy Blount Jr. observed that a cat wasn't enough like having another person in the house, whereas a dog was too much like having another person...
‘Look, We Are Breathing’: What if a life didn’t mean all that much?
Any play that uses a young person's death as its opening narrative gambit could fairly be accused of milking the audience's sympathy ducts. But what if the kid in question...
Drone warfare takes its toll in ‘Graveyard of Empires’
Seeing Elaine Romero's "Graveyard of Empires" at 16th Street Theater on the 150th anniversary of General Lee's surrender at Appomattox added a touch of poignancy to this poetic and surprisingly...
‘The Bird Feeder Doesn’t Know’: Aging and the next generation
Todd Bauer's "The Bird Feeder Doesn't Know" provides yet another entry in the burgeoning field of plays about grown children confronting the frailties — physical and emotional — of their...