By Alan Sherrod A good piece of theatre always keeps its audience guessing, a…
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“What are we doing here, that is the question. And we are blessed in this, that we happen to know the answer. Yes, in the immense confusion one thing alone is clear. We are waiting for Godot to come … ”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
Review: A Search for Identities in Flying Anvil Theatre’s ‘Hir’
By Alan Sherrod As the lights come up on Taylor Mac’s Hir, which opened…
Review: CBT’s ‘Alias Grace’ – A Compelling and Timely Mix of Answers and Questions
By Alan Sherrod It is a bit unfortunate that it takes TV adaptations of…
Monday Arts Miscellany – September 10
A few things to plan on this week— • The Carpetbag Theatre presents Ce Nitram Sacul…
Review: Hammer Ensemble’s ‘Lockdown’ – Gun Violence as a Symptom of Cultural Division
By Alan Sherrod At the beginning of the Hammer Ensemble’s Lockdown at the Flying…
Review: CBT/KSO’s ‘Candide’ – The Best of Dazzling Possibilities
By Alan Sherrod For the last year or so, productions of Leonard Bernstein’s comic…
Monday Arts Miscellany – August 27
One can feel September sneaking furtive glances at us as August stubbornly hangs on a…
Preview: Collaboration Key To CBT/KSO’s ‘Candide’
By Alan Sherrod It’s a bit ironic that Voltaire’s Candide, a novella that satirizes…
Review: Comic Irony Comes Into Sharp Focus in Flying Anvil Theatre’s ‘8 x 10’
By Alan Sherrod With apologies to Henry David Thoreau — do people lead lives of…
Review: Tennessee Valley Players Go ‘Into The Woods’
The Tennessee Valley Players current production in the Carousel Theatre of the Stephen Sondheim-James Lepine musical, ‘Into the Woods’, is a perfect example of just how this abstraction can work brilliantly with a little imagination.
