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Perfect Little You
A new play by Caitlin Turnage Or: Blessed be the gears that link. A girl, fourteen years old. Girl under high pressure from father. Girl...
Ben Kemper
May 6, 20252 min read
House of Tomorrow
A new play by Cat Crowley Or: Conspicuous Consumption It’s a nightmare in Teal. Cool, and slopping and impersonal, the asymmetrical...
Ben Kemper
May 6, 20253 min read
Down the Rocky Road and All the Way to Bedlam
Or: The Android’s Child Be warned, this play is very good and veeeerrry depressing. Not just inspiring melancholy but rip out a heart...
Ben Kemper
May 6, 20252 min read
Mr. Burns at Home Grown Theater
Or: The Wrath of Simpsons At the appointed hour you, the audience, are ushered down a set of impersonal white washed sets down into the...
Ben Kemper
May 6, 20253 min read
The Disaster Artist
Or: Ojai I have some little difficulty being objective about the Disaster Artist. As an actor myself (those who cannot do, teach; those...
Ben Kemper
May 6, 20253 min read
Starry Story Night: The Pleiades
Or: Seven Sisters High atop the huddled skyline of Boise, Idaho, in the showroom of JUMP (what is it? We still don’t know, but can report...
Ben Kemper
May 6, 20252 min read
Macbeth ISF 2018
Or: Witch’n It Old School “Walk into my castle like ‘What up? I am a big Scot.’ Gotta tell the missus ‘bout the missives that the witches...
Ben Kemper
May 6, 20253 min read
The Aristophanesathon
Or: It’s Funny, Cuz It’s True It is a truth universally acknowledged that parodies of classical tragedies are so much funnier than...
Ben Kemper
May 6, 20254 min read
Women of a Certain Age
Or: The Circle Be Unbroken Set on election night 2016 (and first performed on that same day) Richard Nelson’s Women of a Certain Age is...
Ben Kemper
May 6, 20252 min read
How to Steal A Piscasso
Or: The Little Masters Or: Top This Or: Death of a Cracker-Salesman How rare it is to find an outrageous play. Not hard-edged (seen too...
Ben Kemper
May 6, 20253 min read
Silent Sky at Opal Theater co.
Or: Mighty Oaks In Lauren Gunderson’s Silent Sky, the lovely and lovely crafted of astronomer Henrietta Leavitt (Tiera Thompson)....
Ben Kemper
May 6, 20251 min read
Molly's Game
Or: “A Bell of My Good Name" There are some people that just make you feel inadequate. They’re smarter, more driven, put together,...
Ben Kemper
May 6, 20252 min read
Madam Mao
Or: Right to Rebel In 1991, a solitary cell somewhere in the People’s Republic of China, The White Bone Demon keeps the embers of her...
Ben Kemper
May 6, 20252 min read
Skeleton Crew
Or: Once, In A Great City At one point of Dominque Morisseau’s Skeleton Crew, Shanita (Cadence Thomas), an expectant mother and employee...
Ben Kemper
May 6, 20253 min read
What // Washed Ashore // Away
A new play by Benjamin Benne Or: The Outgoing/Incoming Tide It’s like taking a walk on the beach. A careful placing of feet on wet sand...
Ben Kemper
May 6, 20252 min read
La Havana Madrid
Or: Sobre las Olas She is born, like Venus, out of the waves. From beyond the aqua blue walls, Carpacho y Su Súper Combo pouring smooth,...
Ben Kemper
May 5, 20252 min read
Saint Joan
Or: Voice of the Nation Once upon a time, there was a young woman named Joan d’Arc (Tiffany Renee Johnson) who was not expected to become...
Ben Kemper
May 5, 20253 min read
Yasmina’s Necklace
Or: Kibria' Watahamul In Rohina Malik’s tender comedy about looking for love in the Muslin world, silences provide the most eloquent...
Ben Kemper
May 5, 20253 min read
How to Catch Creation a new play by Christina Anderson
Or: What a Wonderful, Tangled Web Griffin (Anthony Irons) wants to heave a kid. Tami (Lily Mojekwu) his best friend and guardian since...
Ben Kemper
May 5, 20252 min read
Lottery Day, A New Play by Ike Holter
Or: Queen stays Queen Mallory (J. Nichole Brooks) is the undisputed monarch of her little corner of the world. Having lost her family to...
Ben Kemper
May 5, 20252 min read
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