Tom Williams

Theatre ReviewsTom Williams

The Castle of Otranto

David Rice’s adaptation of The Castle of Otranto is an ambitious play filled with stock Gothic characters each verbalizing the story with apt descriptions of the curse and the ghosts. Rice has concisely honed the dense novel to a brisk, well-paced 2 hour drama filled with action, some eerie moments, and plausible plot twists.

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St. Crispin’s Day

This crew is part Shakespearean common folk and part Monte Pythonesque performed with raw humor and wild physicality including a mud fight!. Pepper’s script is a hilarious, preposterous in-your-face anti-war fable filled with colorful characters too stupid to understand their plight as pawns in an imperialistic world.

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Theatre ReviewsTom Williams

The Mercy Seat

Neil LaBute and Profiles Theatre make for a fine artistic match. Their latest collaboration is LaBute’s brilliant two-hander, The Mercy Seat. Who else but controversial playwright Neil LaBute could get away with framing the 911 national tragedy into a narcissistic drama of two unlikeable characters?

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Richard III

We are enticed by Action’s 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..

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Theatre ReviewsTom Williams

Hairspray

Based on the 1988 John Waters camp film designed for Devine, Hairspray takes place in 1962 – the 50’s are out and change is in the air but innocence still abounds. Baltimore’s Tracy Tumblad (Marissa Perry), a big girl with big hair (and lot’s of hairspray) and an even larger heart…

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