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Madam Euphoria Reveals Your Future
A New Play by Jenny Sternling Or: Bear Necessities In Madam Euphoria Reveals Your Future playwright Jenny Sternling we find ourselves...
Ben Kemper
May 7, 20252 min read
Once, The Musical
Or: Eurydice in Bloom Orpheus in Dublin. A young man (Jake Slater) stands on a street corner playing a guitar, his voice and veins filled...
Ben Kemper
May 7, 20254 min read
Knives Out
Or: Legacy Thought It’s harder than one my think to pull off a good whodunit. It would seem simple enough: throw shady set of characters...
Ben Kemper
May 7, 20253 min read
An Iliad, at Playhouse Square
Or: Lines in the Sand. It looks like a theater rented for one night. A cinderblock wall, a push broom, a ladder. Any old performance...
Ben Kemper
May 7, 20252 min read
Bernhardt/Hamlet
Or: Put on the Red Light Imagine you are walking in the field. The air is crisp, the colors vividly autumnal, the way curving ahead in...
Ben Kemper
May 7, 20253 min read
Passion Play at BSU
Or: Splinters from the Cross Three different worlds, three villainies remarkably the same. Elizabethan England, somewhere by the sea,...
Ben Kemper
May 7, 20253 min read
The Wolves at BCT
Or: Smart Eyes As a critic there are a few problems that keep me up at night, biting my lip over how to net the essence of a play and...
Ben Kemper
May 7, 20253 min read
Love and a Major Organ
Or: We All Do Dumb Things, Organ Theft Doesn’t Have To Be One Of Them. People do crazy things when we fall in love. We invent grand...
Ben Kemper
May 6, 20253 min read
Beehive, the 60's Musical
Or: Hair What is Beehive? Is it a Jukebox? An ode to female empowerment? Musical Cosplay? A really unorganized history lesson? In the...
Ben Kemper
May 6, 20253 min read
The Book of Will
At Main Street Theater Or: Publish or Vanish Why is it that historical fiction should produce such anxiety? We know, indisputably, that...
Ben Kemper
May 6, 20253 min read
Sooner/Later
A new play by Allyson Currin Or: Unromantic Spirits Lexi (Olivia Cygan) needs a dad. She has convinced her mother Nora (Mary Bacon) to...
Ben Kemper
May 6, 20253 min read
The Aliens at Aegis Theater
Or: Mushroom Man If you met KJ (Miles Potter) on the street, you’d avoid him. A scruffy, gangling thirty-year-old in Birkenstocks and...
Ben Kemper
May 6, 20252 min read
The Humans, at Opel Theater
Or: Ashes, Ashes We All Fall Down The holiday season, time for the family to get back together again. Time for roast beast and comments...
Ben Kemper
May 6, 20252 min read
The Hungry Ones
Or: Burn Out “A house doesn’t need a ghost to be haunted.” On a lonely stretch of road in upstate New York, there sits a house that was...
Ben Kemper
May 6, 20252 min read
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
Or: The Rules aren’t made to be broken. Christopher Boone (Davy Collins) is a kid with a difference. He is fifteen years old (and a bit.)...
Ben Kemper
May 6, 20253 min read
I, Tonya
Or: Devil Woman You can’t write a better villain than Lavona Harding. In the skilled hands of Allison Janey, Lavona is a terrifying,...
Ben Kemper
May 6, 20252 min read
Mamma Mia! at the Idaho Shakespeare Festival
Or: "That’s Pretty Greek." It’s the best mashup of Euripides and Aristophanes a classics major could wish for. A young woman grows up on...
Ben Kemper
May 6, 20254 min read
Isle of Dog
Or: Red in Tooth First thing’s first, this ain’t your typical Wes Anderson. The amiable framer of the enchanting tales Fantastic Mr. Fox,...
Ben Kemper
May 6, 20253 min read
The Wolves
Or: Emerald Field, Black Mirror The women of the Wolves are far from being paragons. They can be cruel, ignorant, apt to fall into long...
Ben Kemper
May 6, 20252 min read
Phantom Thread
Or: Man-Child-Eater I was shocked, shocked I tell you, by how much I enjoy Phantom Thread. I am normally chill and sour when it comes to...
Ben Kemper
May 6, 20253 min read
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