Posts Tagged ‘Adrian Alita’
Cygnet’s Fair ‘Pride/Prejudice’ Begs the Overarching Question: Why?
Jane Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’ is a timeless classic, but only to a point — its scrums on love and marriage take a back seat to the institutions themselves. In its current turn, Cygnet Theatre transgresses this; the result is a less-than-standard effort.
Read MoreThe Kids Are All Right in Terrific ‘Shockheaded Peter’
Psychiatrist and author Heinrich Hoffmann never figured on the modern-day backlash from his children’s book, designed to scare the daylights out of errant kids. The response is ‘Shockheaded Peter,’ Cygnet Theatre Company’s uniformly outstanding nod to the victims beneath the stories.
Read MoreInspiration doesn’t hold up in Cygnet’s fair postdiluvian epic
Fish soup is a pretty good remedy for the rainy-day blues, especially when the storm may well be the last. In Cygnet Theatre’s murky ‘When the Rain Stops Falling,’ fish soup is all that’s on the menu — but an overwrought story relegates it to a household curiosity.
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