Or: “Warming: Contains Vulgarity, Blank-firing Guns, Muzzle-Sweeps, Haze, Strobe Lighting, Racism, Sexism, Homophobia, Hemophilia, Flying...

Or: “Please tell me you’re not getting mystical on me again” To be perfectly candid I am at a loss to describe Will Eno’s Middletown. I...

Or: The First Stone Cast First understand: This Is Not A Play. How to End Poverty is what might be referred to as a “Rohd Show”: a...

Or: Bright Lights, Big Story (but where are our characters? When going to a Baz Luhrmann film it is important to remember that, before...

Or: In the Swing of things. For me, Ballroom events all ways burn a little when going down. There’s no form of dance I find more...

Or: "Heart" is a great power Or perhaps: The Perfect People. By and Concerning Emma Pardini and Ashley Nguyen. Directed by Ellen Abram As...

Or: Through a Fractured Lookingglass. In it’s long and successful history, the Waa-mu show has generally focused upon aspects of...

Or “Brecht for Babies” By Louis Sachar and John Olive (subtitle lifted with reverence from Zoe Nadal, actress) I must take my hat off to...

Or: The Lilly grown, the Lilly Grounéd. By Diana Son Directed by Lauren Shouse. Stop Kiss is a a truly remarkable play. On one the one...

Or: Drops from a Faucet Theoretically, this should be an event to go down in history. Rick Cluchey, close friend and protege of the...

Or “When an angel shows up, sometimes it’s just to wrestle” By Tarell Alvin McCraney (Subtitle lifted with reverence from Kevin Kling,...

For those of us skeptical of the movement arts, who find it sticks in our throat to applaud people who can stand on one foot longer than...

Or: a marathon of woe that accomplishes nothing and inspires even less. Why is it the dramatists tend to celebrate horrid actions of...

Or: Reclamation, the hottest fire. Do not expect the Amish Project to be an easy pill to swallow. Not that there is anything easy about...

Or: Love, Arithmetically The base formula is classic. Boy meets Girl in a university computer lab. Elliot (Matt Holzfeind) is a computer...

Or: Come on, stop being so brilliant! No Fair! I do not profess to be a dance critic. That world is as strange and wondrous and...

Or: An Era Ends with a Bomb, defused by Redemption and Joy and SRK. I would like to begin with an apology. One of my back burner passions...

Or: The Sound of Drums (signify that two hours of your life are gone forever). All things, no matter how vile, have some flicker of...

While normally I have a deeply ingrained and abiding suspicion of any film remotely connected to the word "French", there are times when...

Gentle Reader, My name is Ben Kemper. I'm a dramatic critic, in every sense of the word. I write reviews of plays, movies, readings, and...