Posts Tagged ‘Chris Renda’
Past Is Murky Prologue in Excellent ‘Awake And Sing!’
The world can be a deeply errant place, but it has nothing on its own past. Clifford Odets’ ‘Awake and Sing!’ is 82 years old, after all, and it’s a decided reflection on today’s craziness — you’ll find the parallels abundant in New Village Arts’ excellent production.
Read MoreThe Thing Is, There’s No Kid in MOXIE’s Fair ‘Kid Thing’
Expectant lesbian parents share the joys, worries and conflicts their straight counterparts experience — and on either side of the ledger, the discussion begins and ends with the baby on the way. So why did Sarah Gubbins write ‘The Kid Thing,’ current MOXIE Theatre entry, about everything else?
Read MoreIt’s All About Her in NVA’s Pretty and Decent Biographical ‘Emilie’
In an especially good-looking show, New Village Arts wonders if the head or the heart rules the day in fueling human enterprise. A relatively obscure figure from history does the asking in ‘Emilie: La Marquise du Chatelet Defends Her Life Tonight,’ with topheavy but very interesting results.
Read MoreMaybe NVA’s ‘The Weir’ Would Have Worked As a Staged Reading
It’s a paper-thin veil between life and death, it is, and the regulars at The Weir pub spin the yarns that prove it. But like the ghosts and goblins that color the supernatural tales in the plot, New Village Arts’ production of this Conor McPherson play is inexplicably lifeless.
Read MoreNVA’s Fair ‘Stage Kiss’ Has a Hard Time Coming Up for Air
Farce is pretty cool when it doesn’t look like farce, and that’s pretty much the case in the first act of New Village Arts’ West Coast premiere of ‘Stage Kiss.’ The mystery is that there’s not much play to illuminate it.
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