Posts Tagged ‘Jo Anne Glover’
Diversionary’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 MoreMoxie’s ‘The Revolutionists’ Jokes About the Reign of Terror
In The Revolutionists, playwright Lauren Gunderson turns her attention to three women who lost their lives during the French Reign of Terror…
Read MorePast 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 MoreMOXIE Theatre’s ‘Mud Blue Sky’ Is Pretty Funny, But…
Three aging, frustrated flight attendants are alone in a hotel room with a 17-year-old drug dealer. That conjures up all sorts of images, and ‘Mud Blue Sky’ author Marisa Wegrzyn gets kudos for not stating the obvious (i.e., going there). Her play, the current MOXIE Theatre entry, is really funny, too — the problem is that you might wonder what it’s all for.
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