The central characters of Redtwist Theatre’s current production are a conservative male government leader determined to impose his laws on everyone around him and a radical young woman passionately driven to defy those laws as unjust. This is no up-to-the-minute new drama about abortion rights in America, but rather a Greek tragedy from the fifth […]
Tag: Antigone
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Bliss transports Greek tragedy to midcentury suburban America
And it’s too cute by exactly half.
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Tiresias Was a Weatherman is an Antigone for our age of extreme weather and constant medication
Organic Theater Company tackles climate change, Big Pharma, family dysfunction, the evils of the media machine, and too much else for one play.
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Baudelaire in a Box: Unquenched, The Burials, and nine more new theater reviews
Highlights this week include episode nine of Theater Oobleck’s stage translation of Les Fleurs du Mal and a Steppenwolf for Young Adults drama by Caitlin Parrish.
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Genderfucks and bouncing boobies: new performing arts reviews
Fresh reviews from Reader performing arts critics