Rock Lightning in a Bottle
Local indie band Blitzen Trapper made a big sci-fi show, ‘Wild and Reckless,’ at Portland Center Stage. But was it theatre?
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Local indie band Blitzen Trapper made a big sci-fi show, ‘Wild and Reckless,’ at Portland Center Stage. But was it theatre?
The Austin-based company bid farewell to their home base, the Off Center, with an irreverent ode to impermanence.
The minimalist production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s classic brought the story to life through mime and movement.
With ‘Best of Enemies,’ New Stage Theatre in Jackson, Miss., confronted its audience with an unexpectedly timely tale of racial reconciliation.
At Children’s Theatre Company in Minneapolis, Dr. Seuss’s ‘The Sneetches: The Musical’ offered a prescient tale of discrimination and acceptance.
To respond to Ferguson and the issues it raised, the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis sent Dael Orlandersmith on a one-woman listening tour.
How the Pasadena company’s staging of Molière’s choppy late play found its shape, from its wigs on down to its bodily fluids.
Alice Childress’s seldom-produced interracial love story, though set a century ago, gave off fresh sparks at the Intiman.
How this West Virginia new-play fest builds and rides an annual new-play repertory carousel.
Gabrielle Reisman unearths up-to-the-minute issues—and some comic gold—in her time-hopping play about the Johnstown Flood.