Here is a riddle for you: What do a game of chess and life have in common?* Inside the tidy, rule-driven universe of a chess board, seven-year-old Alice stumbles upon the inexplicable and absurd rules of a new world. Every fledgling chess player will empathize as Alice is met with surprise after surprise in this […]
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Mother of the Maid puts Joan of Arc’s mom in the spotlight
Jane Anderson’s drama doesn’t invest enough in the mother-daughter bond.
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Act(s) of God provides no justification for its existence
Actor Kareem Bandealy’s playwriting debut overreaches.
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There are too many puppets in 20,000 Leagues Under the Seas and not enough action
If the narrated sections are so important, why don’t we get see them?
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There’s madness ahoy in Lookingglass’s Moby Dick
David Catlin’s dazzling aerial-acrobatic production returns.
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Lookingglass’s Blood Wedding, Strawdog’s D.O.A., and nine more notable current stage shows
García Lorca gets transplanted to the Dust Bowl, and an off-Loop mainstay goes noir.
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Lookingglass Theatre moves Moby-Dick from sea to sky
Lookingglass Theatre’s dazzling new staging of Moby-Dick uses aerial acrobatics to buoy Melville’s masterpiece.
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A gutsy new take on Shakespeare’s great Other
The Gift Theatre’s gutsy new take on Shakespeare’s Othello gives us a more Moorish Moor.
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The Little Prince: A kids’ story only adults can love
Lookingglass Theatre Company renders The Little Prince a visual and aural feast.
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In Lookingglass Theatre’s Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, the big cat sleeps tonight
Lookingglass Theatre Company presents Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo.
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Harold Pinter, now with improved opacity
The Writers’ Theatre’s production of Harold Pinter’s The Caretaker, more opaque than ever