Posts Tagged ‘comedy’
Less-than-simple pleasures are at play in Moxie’s The Pleasure Trials
What is pleasure exactly… and what are we willing to do or compromise to capture it? These questions – and more – are highlighted in Sarah Saltwick’s new play The Pleasure Trials
Read MoreCygnet’s ‘Life Sucks’ Makes Its Comic Case
Chekov deserves lush, and Old Town’s Cygnet Theatre has given Life Sucks a lush production…
Read MoreBackyard Renaissance’s ‘Witchland’ an Effective Example of a Rare Theatre Genre
I admired the skill and technical ability it took to produce ‘Witchland’, the Backyard Renaissance production currently “haunting” the Tenth Avenue Arts Center…
Read MoreThe Roustabouts Return With a Mixed Bag Bill of Short Plays
The Roustabouts return to live theatre by presenting Christopher Durang’s For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls at Moxie Theatre. While the title selection is hilarious, the other three short plays that comprise the evening are a mixed bag….
Read MoreA Comedy About the Civil War? NCRT’s ‘Ben Butler’ Has Laughs as Collateral
Richard Strand’s play, “Ben Butler,” is the embodiment of what Shakespeare meant when he wrote, “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers…”
Read MoreGood and Evil Get Confused in Moxie’s ‘The Mineola Twins’
Paula Vogel’s play, The Mineola Twins, imagines that identical twins can grow up different in one way: one’s stance on social and political issues is liberal, and the other’s is conservative…
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