Posts Tagged ‘Richard Baird’
World Premiere by Backyard Renaissance Theatre Isn’t Self Explanatory
The current version of this play is not self-explanatory….
Read MoreGetting Down to Business with Backyard Renaissance Theatre’s Pitch-Perfect ‘American Buffalo’
San Diego’s Backyard Renaissance Theatre Company opened its production of David Mamet’s “American Buffalo” Saturday, November 16, at the Tenth Avenue Arts Center, a modest venue located in a not yet gentrified part of the city’s East Village that is the precisely the type of neighborhood in which Mamet’s play takes place.
Read More‘Amadeus’ Gets NCRT 38th Season Started with a Bang
The trick in staging Amadeus is not to let it become overblown. Director Richard Baird has turned that trick marvelously for the opening of North Coast Repertory Theatre’s 38th season.
Read MoreFair to middlin’ ‘Walk in the Woods’ Is a ‘Zoo Story’ for the Trump-Putin Age
The nuclear age comes wrapped in a sea of pacts, treaties, eleventh-hour phone calls, banner headlines, gleaming host cities, worn-through bargaining tables, heartfelt promises and outright lies. Lee Blessing’s ‘A Walk in the Woods’ tries to explain some of it — but the current North Coast Repertory Theatre entry doesn’t know which part it wants to play.
Read MorePoor Man’s Espionage Rules in NCR’s Spry, Fun ‘Travels’
Henry was content to tend to his dahlias and otherwise fritter away his post-retirement — but his aunt Augusta had other plans, plans she’d unfurled all her life. North Coast Repertory’s very good ‘Travels with My Aunt’ charts their course to that effect.
Read MoreBaird, John Light the Sky in New Fortune’s Thin ‘Les Liaisons dangereuses’
The French Revolution, and the years before it, inundated the world with news of dire consequences in a particularly failed monarchy. Christopher Hampton’s ‘Les Liaisons dangereuses’ had every opportunity to exploit the revolution in the interest of character development — and somehow, Hampton abandoned its every notion in this nonetheless well-mounted drama.
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