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Moonlight
Or: Manhood Based on the semi-autobiographical play by adaptor Terrell Alvin McCraney (already immortalized for his future epitaph “Exit—...
Ben Kemper
May 5, 20252 min read
Crime and Punishment
Or: Lazarus in Gehenna It is a place of ashes. The remnants of a place atomized by fire or ground down by the passing centuries, where...
Ben Kemper
May 5, 20253 min read
Allegiance
Or: My country, right or wrong If Allegiance has a principal virtue it is even handedness. A musical tackling the Japanese Internment...
Ben Kemper
May 5, 20252 min read
In Sarah's Shadow
Or: Remember Me A dance performance with occasional dialog meets PBSesque bio-pic, Olivia Lilley’s story of Eleonora Duse (Dylan...
Ben Kemper
May 5, 20253 min read
Nuclear Family: A new play by Dayna Smith
Or: A Singularity In the year 2044, a small American family instals NiNa (Tiara Thompson), a robot maid and caretaker into their home....
Ben Kemper
May 5, 20252 min read
Karaoke Night at Al Capone’s House of Pancakes
Or: Crazy for you To paraphrase an old saying, “G-d made some hands great and some hands small, but Karaoke made us all equal.” No matter...
Ben Kemper
May 5, 20252 min read
Darkest Hour
Or: Dawkest Houwh Never, in all my years, I have I seen so many grown men assembled who had no relation to or interest in meeting the...
Ben Kemper
May 5, 20252 min read
Wait Until Dark at ISF
Or: “Clever Girl”* It is a surprisingly simple thing but the whole of the Wait Util Dark experience can be held in a single sound. As...
Ben Kemper
May 5, 20253 min read
The Roommate
Or: Breaking Broads Sharon (Ann Price) a woman “retired” from her marriage, with a son far away in New York and not much of anything to...
Ben Kemper
May 5, 20251 min read
The Christians
Or: The Road to Hell It’s a church, not a set. The plush purple velvet carpeting, the orgasmic explosions of white roses, the giant cross...
Ben Kemper
May 5, 20252 min read
Hand to God
Or: The devil in me Playwright Robert Askins paints in broad strokes. Everything; the rage, the lust, is voiced and acted on, spread out...
Ben Kemper
May 5, 20253 min read
The View From Tall
Or: 18 Candles An uncomfortable but earnest film The View From Tall, adapted for the screen by playwright Caitlin Parrish, hefts in hand...
Ben Kemper
May 5, 20252 min read
Grounded
Or: The Blue and The Grey In George Brant’s Grounded, The Pilot (Tess Musky-Goldwyn) meets us like a tiger in a cage. A former F-13...
Ben Kemper
May 5, 20252 min read
Faceless
An Interplay reading at Northlight Theater. Or: Areopagus I don’t think, dear reader, I have ever seen a play quite so … the word that...
Ben Kemper
May 5, 20253 min read
Take Me To The River
Or: Thicker Than Water When seventeen year old Ryder (Logan Miller) accompanies his mother Cindy (Robin Weigert) and father Don (Richard...
Ben Kemper
May 5, 20252 min read
For Annie: A new play by Beth Hyland
Or: Sum Meet Annie Lambert (Hannah Sawicki) the sweetest, kindest, most loving girl ever to grace he Beta Tau Alpha sorority, tragically...
Ben Kemper
May 5, 20252 min read
Moon Shot: A Race to Space
Or: Small steps Seven actors, a roughly 7x4 platform, a silver curtain, and an eternal fascination. Theater Unspeakable premiers the...
Ben Kemper
May 5, 20252 min read
Margin of Error (Or, the Unassailable Wisdom of the Mouse and the Scorpion)
Or, yet: Caesar’s Laurel In such a farcical year as this it would be difficult to premiere a play about elections and the people who run...
Ben Kemper
May 5, 20253 min read
Richard III at the Steppenwolf Garage
Or: Sympathy for the Devil It is the night before the battle of Bosworth Field and Richard the Third (Michael Patrick Thornton) is...
Ben Kemper
May 5, 20254 min read
In Vivo
Or: Ordinary folks, extraordinary circumstances. In Eric Coble’s new play, produced by the 5x5 reading series of Boise Contemporary...
Ben Kemper
May 5, 20252 min read
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