Review

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf

The play combines poetry, prose, and dance in a passionate outpouring of primal feeling, celebrating the indomitable spirit of the inner-city African-American woman.

A Lesson Before Dying

What a difference a decade or two or three makes. Playwright Romulus Linney¿s adaptation of Ernest J. Gaines¿ award-winning novel focuses on the impending execution of a black youth for the murder of a white storeowner, a crime he did not commit.

Blindness

The most brilliant thing about Godlight Theatre Company's adaptation of Jose Saramago's novelBlindnessis the lighting.

Pilgrim

The creative team behind this new musical by composer John Stothers has assembled a talented cast of singers and actors capable of conveying comic material and heavy drama.

EM Lewis' title may be a whimsical metaphor for death, but it's not as grim as it sounds: Some of her best scenes lean toward comedy. Her play cuts back and forth among three main stories, garnished with peripherally related scenes. In the first story, a

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Talk Radio

You probably didn't think it was possible to generate sympathy for a radio shock jock who earns his living spewing venom over the airwaves at his pathetic call-in audience.

Man of La Mancha

Broadway musicals aren't the typical bill of fare at the classics-focused A Noise Within, yet this 1965 Dale Wasserman-Mitch Leigh-Joe Darion masterpiece isn't your garden-variety Broadway tuner.

The Sordid Perils of Actual Existence

I'm finally ready to take the next step," declares the young man. Marriage? Nope, bigger: real estate.

HARM'S WAY

at the Hayworth