THEATRE REVIEWS
NCR’s ‘Fox on the Fairway’ Rarely Leaves the Tee
A set’s profusion of doors may or may not indicate that a farce is on tap. There aren’t that many doorways, for example, that dress the scenes in North Coast Repertory Theatre’s ‘Fox on the Fairway.’ Then again, there isn’t much of this piece to begin with.
Read MoreQueering Leni Riefenstahl
Director Matt M. Morrow gets the depth of what author Jordan Harrison is after, and his sharp production feels as layered as it needs be…
Read More‘Big Fish’ Doesn’t Wilt at Moonlight
Sometimes, when you take a show out of the hothouse that is Broadway and make it available for less harried regional audiences, what wilted in the hothouse blooms when transplanted. And sometimes, the show stays wilted…
Read More‘Pippin’ Razzle-Dazzle Partially Satisfies at the Civic
It may be fine that what sells the show is its razzle-dazzle and not its meat, but you may find yourself only partially sated as you walk away…
Read MoreSD Rep Opens 40th Season With Southern Odyssey ‘Violet’
In the sullen south of the early 1960s, a sweetly intense young woman is on a Greyhound Bus quest to find a television evangelist who will wipe away her childhood scars with a miracle
Read MoreGood Times Roll at the Old Globe With ‘The Comedy of Errors’
Shakespeare’s dizzy twins charade gets inserted into New Orleans around 1920 with surprisingly upbeat results outdoors at the Old Globe with plenty of jazz and a look that sets feet to shufflin’…
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