I wish I could make watching “Charm” at Mosaic Theater a mandatory assignment. “Charm” is a play written in unflinching, witty and heartbreakingly quick exchanges by Philip Dawkins, a Chicago native. The playwright’s ear for dialogue and nuance would be obvious even if the cast did not do the lines justice. This is not the […]
Monday night’s performance of Satchmo at the Waldorf, the first offering in Mosaic Theater‘s second season, was memorable for many reasons. Maybe it was the fact that it was opening night and a packed house. Maybe it was the deft way in which Craig Wallace recovered seamlessly from a couple of crucial prop fails, while […]
We were all excited to find out back in July that the Miracle Theater –owned and operated by the National Community Church, also known as the Theater Church– would be reopening. It’s been a long journey, but it looks like the theater will be opening sometime in February, according to Juliet Main, the theater manager. […]
Winners and Losers at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company is a “frisky theatrical symposium” (New York Times) from Canadian theatre artists Marcus Youssef and James Long that blurs the line between real life and fiction, the personal and the political, admiration and resentment. We sat down with Marcus and Jamie to discuss the framework of the […]
There is a moment in the Folger’s production of Friedrich Schiller’s “Mary Stuart” that is so funny and tragic, you start wondering if what you’re watching is theater of the absurd. It comes during the second half, when Sir William Davison (played by Todd Scofield) realizes that following his Queen’s command will be the end […]