Posts Tagged ‘Curtis Mueller’
Family Dynamic Comes to Call in TPN’s Earnest ‘Guadalupe in the Guest Room’
Television stakes its own reality, often at the expense of real life. In Teatro Pueblo Nuevo’s good ‘Guadalupe in the Guest Room’, a Mexico native and her former son-in-law learn this indelibly — and two cultures come away a little wiser.
Read MoreDiversionary’s Brilliant New Feminist Play by Bryna Turner–Not a Moment Too Soon!
Playwright Bryna Turner’s exciting 2017 play “Bull in a China Shop,” too easily described as a brisk biography of revolutionary feminist Mary Woolley, president of Mount Holyoke College in the early decades of the last century, opened Saturday at Diversionary Theatre. Kim Strassburger’s smashing direction and her astute cast really deliver the goods!
Read MoreClosely Held Characters Hobble Funny But Uneven ‘Romeo, Romeo & Juliet’
Despite its reputation, ‘Romeo and Juliet’ does have its funny moments. That makes it a fairly likely send-up piece — but in its latest entry, the Roustabouts Theatre Co. has neglected the guy that made it possible.
Read MoreThe Ways of the Universe Are Too Much for Backyard’s ‘Gutenberg! The Musical!’
Two of the summer’s better performances are up at Diversionary Theatre — but amid some criminally ingratiating material, the actors can do only so much in Backyard Renaissance Theatre Company’s slovenly Gutenberg! The Musical!.
Read MoreIntrepid’s ‘All My Sons’ works in spite of itself
Except for its unremarkable dialogue and superficial setting, ‘All My Sons’ has a lot going for it–and we’re not being facetious. The script isn’t vintage Arthur Miller, but some ensemble culture and actorial skill make this Intrepid Shakespeare Company entry better than it might have been.
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