Review: The Taming Of The Shrew Duke City Repertory Tries To Tame Shakespeare’s Shrew I know Shakespeare is, well, Shakespeare. Many diehard theater lovers consider him the best playwright to have ever grasped an ink-imbued instrument. Most [...] Christie Chisholm \ Feb 10, 2011 Read More Katherina (Elizabeth Dwyer Sandlin) and Petruchio (Frank Taylor Green) duke it out in a battle of the sexes. (Amelia Ampuero)
Theater Review: Wicked Witches At Popejoy Something Wicked This Way Comes I went to Wicked expecting a musical brimming with kitschy costumes, catchy songs and maybe a heartfelt moment or two. That’s exactly what [...] Christie Chisholm \ Feb 03, 2011 Read More “Relax, Elphaba. It happens everyone’s first time with the Frog Prince.” (Joan Marcus)
Culture Shock: Our Winged Overlords In Aves At Kimo Gallery; Ladies And Fractals In John Myers’ Envisionings At The Talking Fountain. Birds. They are among us. Everywhere. Unavoidable. That’s probably why they figure into art so heavily. They precede humanity and will probably be [...] Alibi \ Feb 03, 2011 Read More
Culture Shock: Killadelphia Examines Murder In The City Of Brotherly Love Murder In The City Of Brotherly Love Sean Christopher Lewis says he came to Philadelphia after graduate school to work at a local theater company. While he was in town, [...] John Bear \ Jan 27, 2011 Read More Sean Christopher Lewis
Performance Review: Adobe Theater’s The Playboy Of The Western World Adobe Theater’s The Playboy Of The Western World People get famous for all kinds of stupid reasons. Look no further than Snooki and Kim Kardashian for bewildering proof. It’s human nature, [...] Christie Chisholm \ Jan 27, 2011 Read More Irish playwright John Millington Synge (1871-1909)
Art News: Waxing Philosophic On Frescos, Kanye West And Impermanence Waxing Philosophic On Frederico Vigil’s New Fresco, Kanye West And Impermanence It’s odd that we invest in stuff . Every thing we buy gets frozen in its moment, in our past, and achieves obsolescence [...] David Leigh \ Jan 20, 2011 Read More Frederico Vigil and his NHCC fresco (Kim Jew Photography)
Culture Shock: Mark Twain’s Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn Omits The “N-Word” First They Came For The N-Word A new version of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn takes out more than 200 instances of the n-word and replaces them with [...] John Bear \ Jan 20, 2011 Read More
Comic Con: Albuquerque Edition How Albuquerque Got Its Nerd Back Fanboys rejoice. The Albuquerque Comic Con will be the first “full-blown comic book convention” to hit Albuquerque in more than a decade, according [...] John Bear \ Jan 13, 2011 Read More “Great, I just had my hearing checked last week. Thanks a lot, guys.” (20th Century Fox)
Enter The Valentine’s Day Card Contest Or Die, Inmate Theater, High And Dry Enter The Valentine’s Day Card Contest Or Die Valentine’s Day is largely a corporate farce designed to sell cards, candy and conflict diamonds. If you are sans significant other, it’s guaranteed [...] John Bear \ Jan 13, 2011 Read More
All In The Timing At The Aux Dog Young Theater Company Reprises Its First Show The Aux Dog Theatre, if no longer in its infancy, is still in its toddlerdom. It’s a young theater, and in the producer’s [...] Christie Chisholm \ Jan 13, 2011 Read More “I know the texture is kind of strange, but bananas are an excellent source of potassium.” (Aux Dog)