Tuesday, February 21, 2017

Review - As You Like It - Classical Actors Ensemble - Always a Pleasant Time In the Forest of Arden - 4 stars

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As You Like It is one of my top ten favorite plays of all time.  So I’m either your best audience (if you get it right) or your worst ni...
Tuesday, February 14, 2017

Review - Anna In The Tropics - Jungle Theater - Yes, it IS Hot In Here - 5 stars

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You know that question, “Is it hot in here or is it just me?”  In the case of the Jungle Theater ’s production of Nilo Cruz’s Pulitzer Pri...

Review - Marie Antoinette - Walking Shadow - Sympathy for the Devil? - 4 stars

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I have to hand it to Walking Shadow Theatre Company .  When it comes to the plays Walking Shadow produces, I never leave feeling neutral ...
Wednesday, February 08, 2017

Review - The Whipping Man - Minnesota Jewish Theatre - They Don't Make 'Em Like This Anymore - 5 stars

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The Whipping Man is a quiet little surprise of a theatrical production, and that is a most welcome thing.  I missed Penumbra Theatre’s re...
Monday, January 30, 2017

Review - Miranda - Illusion Theater - White People Adrift in the Middle East - 4 stars

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Miranda has the makings of a great play, so I’m glad Illusion Theater commissioned the script.  Playwright James Still is a multiple no...
Sunday, January 22, 2017

Review - Rhinoceros - 7th House Theater - Who’s The Rhinoceros and Who’s Really Human? - 4 stars

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As experiments go, 7th House Theater ’s presentation of Eugene Ionesco’s Rhinoceros is a pretty successful one. 7th House wanted to get I...

Fresh Oysters Performance Research Presents "Piece By Piece: Lux String Quartet & Tom Comitta" - 1/22/17

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Here's the first example for 2017 of why Fresh Oysters Performance Research is a place I am never bored : I saw the Lux String Quartet...
Friday, January 20, 2017

Why I Read My Last Think Piece On The Death of Democracy on December 1st

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December 1, 2016 - it’d been just a few weeks since the election, not even a month. I’d read yet another think piece on the death of Americ...
Thursday, January 19, 2017

Things To Keep In Mind For The New Year - 16 of 20

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16. Learn from others in other countries.  Keep up your friendships abroad, or make new friends abroad.  The present ...
Wednesday, January 18, 2017

Things To Keep In Mind For The New Year - 15 of 20

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15. Establish a private life.  Nastier rulers will use what they know about you to push you around.  Scrub your compu...
Tuesday, January 17, 2017

Review - Big Money - Sandbox Theatre - Yet Another All-American Con Artist - 3.5 stars

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People sometimes wonder why writers write the things they write.  Or why theaters put on the plays they do.  That goes double in the case ...
Saturday, January 14, 2017

Review - Almost, Maine - Mosaic Productions - So Many People, So Little Time - 4 stars

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It’s easy to see why people like John Cariani’s play Almost, Maine - why actors like it, why theaters keep producing it, and why people k...
Saturday, January 07, 2017

Revenge - by poet Elisa Chavez

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(This was so good, I needed to repost it here as a reminder...) Since you mention it, I think I will start that race war.
 I could’ve sw...

Things To Keep In Mind For The New Year - 14 of 20

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--> 14. Give regularly to good causes, if you can.  Pick a charity and set up autopay.  Then you will know that you have made a...
Wednesday, January 04, 2017

Things To Keep In Mind For The New Year - 13 of 20

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13. Hinder the one-party state.  The parties that took over states were once something else.  They exploited a historical moment to ma...
Tuesday, January 03, 2017

Things To Keep In Mind For The New Year - 12 of 20

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12. Take responsibility for the face of the world.  Notice the swastikas and the other signs of hate.  Do not look aw...