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An Enemy of the People
Or: The Mass of Men For Yale Repertory Theater’s timely production of An Enemy of the People composer Matthew Suttor has put together a...
Ben Kemper
May 5, 20253 min read
Continuity: A New Play By Bess Wohl
Or: In The Last Five Minutes of Light In a desolate corner of the Nevada desert, dressed up to look like the arctic wastes, Maria...
Ben Kemper
May 5, 20254 min read
The Violet Hour
Or: Stranger than Fiction Twinklishly smart and darkly thrilling, The Violet Hour is an endlessly surprising comedy as Richard Greenberg...
Ben Kemper
May 5, 20252 min read
King of the Yees
Or: Chinatown Smart, spunky, and glittering with wit, Lauren Yee’s autobiographical myth is a stunning blend of styles. Broad farce,...
Ben Kemper
May 5, 20253 min read
The Scullery Maid
Or: Assassin Outclass’n Can a good monarch ever be a good man? Does the price of greatness always have to payed in the blood? One dark...
Ben Kemper
May 5, 20252 min read
Upright Grand, a new play by Laura Schellhardt
Or: The Song is Ended (but the Melody Lingers On) A piano is a focal point: of a melody, of a home, or indeed a life. It can be a...
Ben Kemper
May 5, 20252 min read
10 Out Of 12
Or: Thank you, Dark There is something about the theater, the ridiculousness of the art, that makes people want to dismember it. To look...
Ben Kemper
May 5, 20253 min read
Sycamore, a new play by Sarah Sander
Or: Fractured Households Celia and David Jacobs (Selina Fillinger and Tom Hickey) have never been very good at sharing. They’re coming to...
Ben Kemper
May 5, 20252 min read
American Hwangap
Or: The Prodigal Father In Korean culture a man’s Hwangap, his sixtieth birthday, is a huge milestone in his life. He not only looks back...
Ben Kemper
May 5, 20252 min read
Jesus the Jew As Told By His Brother James
Or: The Chosen Ones What would it be like to grow up with the Son of God? For James (Steven Stafford), son and Joseph and Mary, it was a...
Ben Kemper
May 5, 20252 min read
Wit at the Hypocrites
Or: Second Childishness For a woman hosting stage four ovarian cancer Dr. Vivian Bearing (Lisa Tejero) is terribly energetic. A...
Ben Kemper
May 5, 20252 min read
Faceless at the Northlight
Or: And Justice for All It is easy, indeed it is the human instinct, to level our fears and hatreds at one thing: a flash man in a place...
Ben Kemper
May 5, 20253 min read
Where Did We Sit on the Bus?
Or: Let It Out, Let Them In The return of actor/writer/musician/storyteller Brian Quijada to the Boise Contemporary Theater Stage is a...
Ben Kemper
May 5, 20251 min read
My Parents Are Here Tonight, a new play by Zoe Maltby
Or: Leary It’s closing night of Aspects of Lear, spring show of the New Salem High School Drama program. Backstage, amid crumpled clothes...
Ben Kemper
May 5, 20252 min read
Alias Grace
Or: A Patchwork Creature In 1859, in a small Canadian asylum, Dr. Simon Jordon (Steve Harrad), an alienist and Proto-Freudian (good name...
Ben Kemper
May 5, 20252 min read
Twilight Bowl, a new play by Rebecca Gilman
Or: Bumpers Down In the small town of Reynolds Wisconsin, the home of many of Rebecca’ Gilman’s stories, there sits a bowling ally;...
Ben Kemper
May 5, 20252 min read
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Or: G-d Help The Outcasts As its setting is a symphony of stone, as it’s source is a rhapsody of story, so too is the Hunchback of Notre...
Ben Kemper
May 5, 20254 min read
At These Gates: A new play by Joan Sergay
Or: Without Boarders Two women meet, on a fence, in Syria. Amira (Cemre Paksoy) is pregnant, trusting in G-d’s will and committed to...
Ben Kemper
May 5, 20252 min read
Into the Beautiful North
Or: Magnificent There’s a moment at the top of Into The Beautiful North when Nayeli (Ilse Zacharias) a start-eyed optimist,...
Ben Kemper
May 5, 20252 min read
Destiny of Desire
Or: ¡Secretos y Sorpresas y Sábanas, mi Dio! On the whole the world needs more comedies. Or rather it needs more thinking, feeling...
Ben Kemper
May 5, 20253 min read
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