Off-Off-Broadway Review

Noir

'Noir'  is a studiously rendered exercise in translating the visual aesthetic of film noir into a live theatre experience.

Artifacts of Consequence

On the one hand, playwright Ashlin Halfnight thankfully eschews clunky exposition in his post-apocalyptic play 'Artifacts of Consequence'.

In Security

Wanting to do it all—to be a wife and a successful career person, a mother and a free spirit—is one of the defining struggles of the modern American female.

As You Like It

It was the second preview of Frog & Peach Theatre Company's As You Like It, and during the first half a dispiriting air of sluggishness hung over both the court of Duke Frederick and the forest of Arden.

One Thing I Like to Say Is

Playwright Amy Fox's writing has a surface quirkiness that doesn't quite disguise a disturbing worldview.

Trinity 5:29

Men and women in whose seemingly ordinary lives lies the seed for unspeakable terrors have long fascinated writers. Just think of poor Pandora and that box or any number of horror movies in which someone accidentally frees a demon.

Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage

While stimulating in concept, Banana Bag & Bodice's irreverent "songplay" Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage, an attempt to rescue the medieval epic poem from the suffocating tedium of academic criticism, is a theatrical misfire.

Tibet Does Not Exist

Instead of claiming that a talented performer could make reading the phone book interesting, I'd like to suggest substituting playwright Don Thompson's Tibet Does Not Exist.

Red Fly/Blue Bottle

Red Fly/Blue Bottle is a dark radio-era wonderland where everyday objects such as pins, teacups, and springs taking on epic proportions.