Adrift
Adrift nicely moves back and forth in time allowing us to see, from Isaac’s memory of growing up with his father and the haunting remembrance of dad’s battle with post traumatic stress disorder.
Theatre Reviews
The Dumb Waiter
It’s been over 50 years since Harold Pinter’s chilling and influential vignette of two hit men debuted, and TUTA’s revival proves it’s lost none of its power to haunt the mind.
How to Train Your Dragon
It sure is a major event–as the best elements of large-scale animation video meets vivid lighting and with actors and dragons flying about over the audience produces the setting for the group of Viking (sporting a thick Scottish brogue?) …
The American Plan
This psychologically compelling work features a collection of damaged and emotionally wrecked individuals struggling to escape their unhappiness. They are filled with fear- of loneliness, of abandonment and the loss of the amenities of the good life. The don’t want to utilize the figurative American plan-that is one price for both room and meals.
Richard III at Oak Park Festival Theatrre
We are enticed by Theis’ sly performance as Richard even when he outlines his evil plan in a monologue that gets us to almost like this charming but purely evil villain. His asides to the audiences with their wink and sour faces keep us intoxicated with Richard’s manipulations leading to killings that lead to his ascending to the English crown
Nickel History: The Nation of Heat
Fitzpatrick carries on from the influence of Studs Terkel as he chronicles today’s world through anecdotal memories and characterizations of influential folks from his past including his father.
A Scent of Flowers
The cast, sporting authentic English accents, featured extremely articulate use of Saunders’ language that quite effectively delivered the wit, satire, and truthfulness in respect to the playwrights script. Seldom to you see such outstanding ensemble work as rendered here.
Salt of the Earth
Salt of the Earth is a 1988 play about the English towns of Upton and South Kirby in Yorkshire from 1947-1988. It covers two sisters both married to coal miners. Annie (Suzanne Miller) marries Roy (Joshua Katzker) who is bent on leaving mining for a better job
Moment
Set in the Celtic Tiger boom in Ireland, Deirdre Kinahan’s Moment is a tightly drawn kitchen-sink family drama that finds a family reunion of sorts turning into dramatic confrontation where old wounds are rubbed. Setting down to tea, the Lynch’s welcome their estranged son, Nail (Josh Odor) to the family’s Dublin home.
The 39 STEPS
Even more amazing than seeing four characters enact 140 parts, is realizing just how brilliantly they accomplish this Herculean task. In actuality, Peter Simon Hilton plays only one part — but it is a biggie, demanding his consummate acting skill