MEMORY LANE IS A DESERT ROAD
Sunday, April 6th, 2025
A daughter sifts through her war correspondent father’s photos to better understand his life and her own in Nabra Nelson and Michael B. Nelson’s autobiographical gem Memory Lane Is A Desert Road, a World Premiere drama strikingly staged and terrifically performed by the young artists of Eight Ball Theatre.
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SUCH SMALL HANDS
Sunday, March 9th, 2025
Adam Szymkowicz writes writes about Alzheimer’s from a spouse/caretaker’s point of view and does so with humor, compassion, and perception in Such Small Hands, a powerful Chance Theater World Premiere.
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FROU-FROU: A MENAGERIE OF SORTS
Monday, March 3rd, 2025
If Tennessee Williams were alive today, he might have written Frou-Frou: A Menagerie of Sorts, John Anthony Loffredo’s deliciously daring queer riff on Williams’ A Glass Menagerie, with a little bit of A Streetcar Named Desire testosterone (and some extended full-frontal male nudity) thrown in for seductive measure.
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FOUR WOMEN IN RED
Sunday, February 23rd, 2025The missing and murdered Indigenous women Laura Shamas writes about in Four Women In Red deserve a better play and production than the latest Victory Theatre World Premiere.
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FAKE IT UNTIL YOU MAKE IT
Friday, February 7th, 2025Multiple mistaken identities, a slew of slammed doors, and plenty of physical comedy spark Larissa FastHorse’s hilarious if not quite fabulous World Premiere satiric culture-clash farce Fake It Until You Make It at the Mark Taper Forum.
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THE BROTHERS ABELSON SINCE 1946
Tuesday, February 4th, 2025
Dramatic fireworks explode when a 26-year-old New York-based graphic novelist is summoned back to the family home in Dennis Danziger’s powerful autobiographical three-hander The Brothers Abelson Since 1942, a guest production at Venice’s Electric Lodge.
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LISTING
Tuesday, January 28th, 2025
To renovate or not to renovate, that is the question when an early 20th-century architectural gem is put up for sale in Russell Brown’s Listing, an already absorbing drama when slowly but surely it reveals its true nature as one doozy of a thriller.
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