Performance Review: Bit Characters From Hamlet Wander To Their Demise At Theatre X Bit Characters From Hamlet Wander To Their Demise At Theatre X This is no spoiler: “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead.” An ambassador from England announces this at the end of Hamlet and this masterpiece [...] Leigh Hile \ Nov 01, 2012 Read More Tyler Shoemake (left) and Stephen Armijo (Scrap Productions)
Performance Review: Vortex’s Solid Cast Props Up Madcap Plotline Vortex’s Solid Cast Props Up Madcap Plotline The point of staging November in November is, presumably, to bring added topical relevance to the play. It concerns fictional incumbent U.S. President [...] Leigh Hile \ Oct 25, 2012 Read More
Performance Review: Ash Tree Is Genuinely Suitable For All Ages Fantasy Journey Is Cloaked In Mystery When the people of Duke City Repertory Theatre say Ash Tree is suitable for all ages, they mean it. It may be tempting [...] Leigh Hile \ Oct 18, 2012 Read More
Performance Review: Dark Of The Moon Falls Flat An Ambitious And Haunting Play Falls Flat This show marks Southwest Rural Theatre Project’s 10th production since its inception a little more than a year ago. That’s an impressive record, [...] Leigh Hile \ Oct 11, 2012 Read More
Mother Road Brings The Battle Of Gettysburg To Life The Killer Angels is massive, sprawling, unwieldy—just like the novel it’s based on. Featuring a cast of almost 30 characters representing real historical [...] Leigh Hile \ Sep 27, 2012 Read More
Performance Review: Fusion Theatre Company’s Other Desert Cities Great Acting From Fusion Theatre Company Probes Familial Bonds From the first rise of the curtain, expect to be captivated by Other Desert Cities . The new play by New York playwright [...] Leigh Hile \ Sep 20, 2012 Read More From left: Joanne Camp, Paul Blott and Laurie Thomas
Review: Aux Dog Takes On Post-9/11 Fear With The Sleeper Aux Dog Production Criticizes America’s Blinding Fear The Sleeper is intended to be social satire about the post-9/11 culture of fear. But this contemporary comedy by Catherine Butterfield somehow manages [...] Leigh Hile \ Sep 13, 2012 Read More
Performance Review: To Grandmother’s House We Go Classic Fable Becomes An Allegory For Death In Tricklock’s Latest Everything is changing in Catherine’s world. She’s getting older. Her grandmother is dying. Even the snowy woods where she grew up are growing [...] Leigh Hile \ Aug 30, 2012 Read More
Performance Review: Blackout Innovates With A Trio Of Domicile-Driven Love Stories Blackout Innovates With A Trio Of Domicile-Driven Love Stories A philandering poet, a pair of clowns and a woman on the verge of burning her house down. These are several of the [...] Leigh Hile \ Aug 23, 2012 Read More (Aaron Giombolini)
Performance Preview: A Sneak Peek At Mother Road’s Upcoming Production Of The Killer Angels Mother Road Opens Doors To The Public In Advance Of Its September Production Taps flowed, pizza was passed around and old friends joked together in the basement of JC’s NYPD pizzeria. As the cast and crew [...] Leigh Hile \ Aug 16, 2012 Read More Mother Road’s band of bearded brothers will take on the Battle of Gettysburg in The Killer Angels . (Photo by Julia Thudium)