Theater Editorial Reviews
Theater reviews: Engrossing if predictable 'Mojo Mickybo'; rare revival of Mae West's 'Sex'
Kerry Reid - November 5, 2009
"Mojo Mickybo" ★★★In fall 2008, Seanachai Theatre Company unveiled the local premiere of Owen McCafferty's "Scenes from the Big Picture," a sprawling and ultimately unwieldy portrait of several hard-luck Belfast residents caught up in desperate circumstances on the margins of life. The...
Theater review: 'Thoroughly Modern Millie'
Chris Jones - November 5, 2009
Show sits nicely at Drury Lane
Theater review: 'The Good, the Bad, and the Monkey'
Nina Metz - November 5, 2009
The Good, the Bad, and the Monkey ** 1/2 Performer Amanda Rountree has subtitled her one-woman show Singlehood, Dating the Search for Something Real, and while this is well-worn territory we ve all had our fill of Sex and the City, yes? Rountree s plain-Jane, quirky approach has...
Theater review: 'Faustus'
Nina Metz - October 26, 2009
Devil is in the details in Theater Oobleck's telling of Faust legend
Theater review: 'The Message is in the Music'
Chris Jones - October 26, 2009
'Message' hard to find in BET's muddle of heavenly music
Theater review: 'The House on Mango Street'
Chris Jones - October 21, 2009
Sandra Cisneros' "The House on Mango Street" is one of the great Chicago novels, a cascade of memory, idea and budding sensuality, and one of the finest books penned about finding, understanding, keeping, leaving and (eventually) returning to your place. At once nostalgic and clear-eyed, it also is...
Theater review: 'Heroes'
Chris Jones - October 26, 2009
Old soldiers never say die in Remy Bumppo comedy
Theaer review: 'C'est La Vie'
Kerry Reid - October 26, 2009
Site-specific staging could rescue this tale of 2 sad French songbirds
Theater review: 'The Glorious Ones'
Nina Metz - October 26, 2009
A big wet kiss to actors and the acting life, "The Glorious Ones" (in a regional premiere at BoHo Theatre) wants you to fall in love with the very idea of performance itself. True enough, life would be awfully dull without our actors -- a large chunk of whom owe a debt to the roving...
