Tag: Vol. 35 No. 3

For this late-night offering, Hell in a Handbag Productions camps up a few classic Twilight Zone and Night Gallery episodes, an idea much funnier in conception than in execution. Part of the problem seems to be that entering the Twilight Zone usually requires the company to abandon its preferred era, the late 70s. The best […]

Shakespearean conceits are writ large in Michael Govier’s amusing play for Chemically Imbalanced Comedy. Borrowing from Macbeth, Hamlet, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream and incorporating musical theater, puppetry, and burlesque elements, this frothy farcical work isn’t always original, but it remains good fun. A committed cast energetically sells the silliness in Govier’s elaborate plot, as […]

Evan Smith’s farce about an accidental marriage tints British comedy with existential absurdity.

The Free Associates’ new fully improvised one-act, which pokes fun at Anne Rice novels, follows the company’s usual formula for parody. As in shows like Cast on a Hot Tin Roof and BS, the cast steep themselves so thoroughly in the material that parts of the show could pass for a stage adaptation, though a […]

Doing site-specific works can be a gimmick. But in Sandbox Theatre Project’s hands, this play performed in a Lakeview bar about three twentysomethings hanging out in, yep, a bar is effervescent and true, inventive and fun. Playwrights Cliff Chamberlain, Chelsea Cutler, and Justin D.M. Palmer aim to explore, if not exactly the road not taken, […]

Kimberly Senior’s well-calibrated staging of Anton Chekhov’s exercise in diminishing returns balances the Prozorov sisters’ pointless sentiment against their frittering inanities, their earned despair against ineffectual self-pity. Playing the siblings, Kat McDonnell, Abigail Boucher, and Anita B. Deely seem to age before our eyes, so toxic is their cumulative disillusionment with love and work. By […]