Or: To sit in solemn silence as whimsy bubbles from your ears. This is a show to have fun at. You do not sit down to puzzle over some...

Or: Hope and Death spring eternal The film is never going to be as good as the book. That is just one of the hard facts you have to...

Or: Vengeance wears a Mullet Imagine every trope you can think of from 80’s action movies. brutal, bruce lee inspired hand to hand...

Or: Grimmly Good Many people forget how dark fairy tales are supposed to be. They were made for instruction and nothing captures our...

Or: You’d Better Watch Out At long last I have found a christmas story that twines about all the pillars of the holiday: the need to...

Or: From muck comes....further muck With his new production of Shakespeare’s Scottish Play, Kenneth Branagh swaggers back to claim the...

Or: A murderous story of murderous stories As we enter the tiny space of the Side Projects Theater we are greeted by sinister sounds of...

Or: Sing in me muse of the rage of Achilles This is what Theater is supposed to be. Or rather, this is how Theater was at it’s outset and...

Or: An Assembly such as This. Is there any Felicity in the world superior to this? To watch the wit and wisdom, the naughtiness and...

Or: The Game gets Vicious when the Stakes are Small “All Nations are Narratives”, states Bulal Dardai the creator, writer and puppet...

Or: “Handsome, in a dumb hick Texas kind of way”* I swear I’m going to need to visit the doctor; Director Jean-Marc Vallee has so...

Or: The One Who Knocks There are three moments when Fergus Inder’s production of Marat/Sade really finds its rhythm, it’s pointed edge,...

Or: Light and Airy Fare. Written by Evanston playwright and teacher Anne Negrit, With Two Wings bares us to a strange and wondrous world...

Or: a proper Desert Storm The leitmotif of the National Theatre’s current production of Othello is one of rage bottled in a confined...

Or: The Man Who Knew Too Much If I wanted to be cruel and lead you astray I could tell you that the 39 Steps is falling to pieces: that...

Or: “I’ll never do Nothing again” It’s tough being a kid. You don’t yet know how to look for answers yet are inundated with questions...

A new play by Scott Egleston Or: Of Grief, Memory, and Microwave Burritos Noel Coward once wrote “There is no evidence that the life to...

Or: Interesting Times There is a curse: “May you live in Interesting Times” that the Chinese have been threatening each other with,...

Or: Lekker: L-E-K-K-E-R. From the Dutch. A descriptor meaning various “nice” things. Ex: “The show is Lekker”. As a reviewer I have hard...

Or: Gifts from the City of Light I never knew in all my life how important light was until this evening. (I mean in an artistic sense....