Kylie McVey and Bowdie Photo Credit: Matt Urban Mobius New Media. By David Schultz Because of Winn-Dixie is based on the beloved children’s book penned by Kate DiCamillo. This still morphing show has been kicking around since 2013. It is in its final stages and is Broadway-bound. The simple plot details the warm and emotional friendship between…
Jill Shackner and Karyn Quackenbush photo by Joan Marcus by Barry Bassis Iowa begins promisingly with a self-possessed little girl, Kolette Tetlow, singing. The promise vanishes when the music ends. A ditzy divorceé named Sandy (Karyn Quackenbush) suddenly informs her 14-year old daughter Becca (Jill Shackner) that she is going to marry a man…
Billy Carter, Brittany Vicars, Robert Petkoff, Arnie Burto Photos by Joan Marcus by Dorothy Marcic Going to see 39 Steps at the Union Street Theater is part film noir, part physical comedy, and part brilliant acting, with four characters playing so many parts you shouldn’t even try to count. Spend your time watching them…
by Deirdre Donovan Christina Bianco impersonates 40 personas in the behind-the-scenes world of kindergarten admissions at a fictive private Manhattan school. Christina Bianco reveals the behind-the-scenes world of kindergarten admissions at a fictive private Manhattan school in Application Pending, now running at the Westside Theatre. Co-written by Greg Edwards and Andy Sandberg, this…
Ivette Dumeng and Sergio Castillo photos by Rosalie Baijer. by Deirdre Donovan Theater historians tend to extol the dramatic virtues of August Strindberg’s Miss Julie, The Creditors, The Dance of Death, The Father, and A Dream Play. But Kristina? Hardly. This historical drama, in fact, seems to be more Strindberg’s step-child than one of…
Lupita Nyong’o Photos by Joan Marcus By Ron Cohen It’s a rare work of theater that can transport audiences to a totally unfamiliar terrain and hold them there, transfixed, from start to finish. But that’s exactly what playwright Danai Gurira — with the help of a brilliant cast and director —…
Emily Young and Noah Brody in a scene from Fiasco Theater’s “Into the Woods” (Photo credit: Joan Marcus) by David Schultz When this brilliant musical first hit the boards in 1987 it seemed a fresh take on all the fairy tale bedtime stories we were told as tiny tots. A mishmash of various characters…
Michael Alcide, Fernand Auguste, Ryan Jillian Kilpatrick, Chima Chikazunga, Darren Jerome Lamb, Cherith Scott. Photos by Gerry Goodstein by Eugene Paul There’s a prideful fervor in this Atlanta Black Theater Festival production of Dutchman which goes beyond the fact that Obie winner Dutchman is having yet another showing in the place that spawned it,…
Tonya Pinkins (above) and Dianne Wiest (below) (Photo credit: Monique Carboni) By David Schultz A scintillating cat and mouse treatise combines office politics and race into a frothy mix. Cunningly directed, makes for must see viewing. This new black comedy written by Joel Drake Johnson hits a lot of nerves. The subject of race…
Clark Scott Carmichael, Jennifer Hope Wills By Edward Lieberman The story of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table has inspired generations. One of its more recent iterations was Camelot, a musical crafted by Broadway legends Alan J. Lerner (book and lyrics) and Frederick Loewe (music), which ran on the Great White…