By Alan Sherrod How does a work of theatre confront the issue of domestic abuse but at the same time walk the fine line between painful tragedy and unseemly comedy? For playwright Lauren Gunderson, the solution was to construct…
Review: Nora – And An Intriguing Debate – Returns in ‘A Doll’s House, Part 2’
By Alan Sherrod As the lights come up on Lucas Hnath’s A Doll’s House, Part 2, looming ominously upstage center is the infamous front door of Torvald Helmer’s house, the door through which Nora Helmer passed on her way…
Review: CBT’s ‘Peter and the Starcatcher’ – An Ensemble Tour de Force
There is no greater example in literature of the boundlessness of childhood imagination than the story of Peter Pan. Created in a number of vehicles by J.M. Barrie including his 1904 play, Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow…