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Posts Tagged ‘Rob Lutfy’

Cygnet’s Fair ‘Pride/Prejudice’ Begs the Overarching Question: Why?

By Martin Jones Westlin | May 20, 2019 | 0

Jane Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’ is a timeless classic, but only to a point — its scrums on love and marriage take a back seat to the institutions themselves. In its current turn, Cygnet Theatre transgresses this; the result is a less-than-standard effort.

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Cygnet’s Good ‘Brilliant Thing’ Passes As a Public Service on Rigors of Life

By Martin Jones Westlin | August 30, 2018 | 0

Adjusted for age, the annual U.S. suicide rate increased 24 percent between 1999 and 2014, from 10.5 to 13 suicides per 100,000 people — the highest rate in 28 years. That’s a horrible portent — but Cygnet Theatre Company’s good ‘Every Brilliant Thing’ offers the right philosophical alternative.

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Spirit Tops the Logistics in Cygnet’s Unfinished ‘Wind And the Breeze’

By Martin Jones Westlin | May 24, 2018 | 0

Your universe is as big, or as small, as you care to make it — after all, it’s your universe. ‘The Wind and the Breeze,’ Cygnet Theatre Company’s current entry, can’t quite decide between the dimensions, but its spirit and production values count for a lot.

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‘Marigolds’ Very Well Staged Despite a Thin Central Role

By Martin Jones Westlin | September 3, 2017 | 0

Art and science are inseparable in playwright Paul Zindel’s ‘The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds’ — and in this very good Cygnet Theatre Company production, little Tillie Hunsdorfer is inseparable from life’s truths.

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The Kids Are All Right in Terrific ‘Shockheaded Peter’

By Martin Jones Westlin | May 29, 2017 | 1

Psychiatrist and author Heinrich Hoffmann never figured on the modern-day backlash from his children’s book, designed to scare the daylights out of errant kids. The response is ‘Shockheaded Peter,’ Cygnet Theatre Company’s uniformly outstanding nod to the victims beneath the stories.

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Unrequited Love Smarts In Cygnet’s Good ‘Stupid F**king Bird’

By Martin Jones Westlin | May 31, 2016 | 0

Love and art basically suck, at least when our sensibilities toward each are locked in mortal competition. Anton Chekhov said as much when he wrote ‘The Seagull’ in 1898 — and today, Cygnet Theatre Company is mounting a good treatise to the same effect.

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