It must be the way fans of The Rocky Horror Show feel about attending its performance. They can hardly wait for the music to start to sing along. With Rodgers and Hammerstein’s breakout 1943 musical Oklahoma! I’ve been singing along with every song since grade school. I lost count of how many versions of the … Continue reading
Posted in July 2015 …
A Fun Lark in the Park: The Colony presents “The Taming of the Shrew”
William Shakespeare wrote The Taming of the Shrew possibly as early as 1590, shortly after he moved to London. The bright, young author from the English countryside, brimming with ideas and ambition, may have felt overwhelmed by the big city bustle. It must have been a comfort to write a comic send-up of bumpkins and … Continue reading
OTHELLO: Rage-rockin’ the Bard with Second Thought
And when I love thee not Chaos is come again. Act 3, Scene 3 Othello Chaos is come again.…. Chaos “comes again” with the heat of a raging forest fire and tension of a python squeezing prey with steel-taut coils in Second Thought Theatre’s production of Shakespeare’s Othello. It runs through August 8 in Bryant … Continue reading
Fit to FIT: CrossOver Arts Theatre’s “Dangerous Things on Dark Nights”
Some shows just fit FIT. Crossover Theatre Arts’ Dangerous Things on Dark Nights “fits” the bill at the auspicious intersection of mission, mantra and manifestation. Providing a setting for new, unproven playwrights to produce new, unproven, short works exists as one of the way cool assets of FIT (Festival of Independent Theatres), continuing at the … Continue reading
A Question of Manliness: DGDG at FIT 2015
I never thought of being a man Until you told me so… What was I when I wasn’t what I should be? Haunting lyrics bookend Danielle Georgiou Dance Group’s (DGDG) holistic offering at the 2015 Festival of Independent Theatres, running July 10 through August 1st at the Bath House Cultural Center. The Show About Men … Continue reading
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