It only hurts when they pee…
Erin Morrison-Fortunato
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Inside Shaw Fest 2006
The 2006 Shaw Festival, featuring Arms and the Man, High Society, Too True to Be Good, The Crucible, The Magic Fire, Rosmersholm, Love Among the Russians, The Heiress, The Invisible Man, and Design for Living, continues through November 19 at several theaters in Niagara-on-the-Lake in Ontario, Canada. For schedules and ticket information visit www.shawfest.com, or […]
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Merry-Go-Round’s “King and I”
The King rules, but some uncomfortable staging
ruffles.
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The Male Intellect: An Oxymoron?
Downstair Cabaret explores
the mind of a man — or what passes for it
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A powerful “Protocol”
The sound of hollow wind rolls against the walls. Muted
urban noise rings eerily: muffled voices, brakes screeching, sirens wailing. It
is Music Concrete, real, found sounds incorporated with musical notes. This
disturbing composition sets the mood for an emotionally disruptive play.
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A longwinded “View”
Any daughter who shares a co-dependent relationship with her
mother can relate to Amy’s View.
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May the Schwartz be with you
Like Frasier with a twist of Reality Bites, The Last Schwartz is a two-hour sitcom, without commercial interruption.The play welcomes its audience into the home of the Schwartz family as they celebrate their papa’s unveiling, the tradition of honoring the dead and unveiling the tombstone. Doesn’t seem like a terribly funny situation, right? But it’s […]
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Splitting the difference
Albert Einstein said, “Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.” Religion verses science. Fact verses faith. Is there common ground between these seemingly opposing forces? Geva hosts the world premiere of Splitting Infinity, a dramatic love story exploring these themes. Sitting within the prime focus cage of an astronomical telescope, 24-year-old astrophysicist […]
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“I am not an animal!”
Picturing a morph from ape into man into cross, the art on Geva’s program for Inherit the Wind speaks volumes about the raging debate over evolution. The play is loosely based on the1925 Scopes Monkey Trial, which took place in rural Dayton, Tennessee. The state’s Butler Act forbade public schools from teaching any theory denying […]
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Death comes knocking
Claustrophobia sets in immediately. Dusty purple envelopes the walls. Giant silver flowers dance across the wallpaper, dizzying me. The construction of the room draws the eye in. This set is created with purpose. The plot of Vigil, a morose comedy now running at Geva, mirrors the set: dark and disorienting. A bare wooden floor, sparse […]
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Missing a few pieces
Don’t attend The Puzzle Locker, at the University of Rochester’s Todd Theatre, seeking answers, it won’t provide any. Don’t attend expecting a linear plotline involving the traditional exposition, climax, and resolution. This is avant-garde theatre. So, seek questions, because you will leave with many. Seek an original experience: It will be delivered. An unnatural campground […]
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Welcome to Tuna, Texas. Population: crazy.
Everything’s bigger in Texas, even including the personalities in Tuna, where the claim to fame is being the third smallest town in the state. Country holiday music fills the air and sparkling Christmas lights dangle over the audience, setting a celebratory mood in the Downstairs Cabaret Theatre, home to this production of A Tuna Christmas. […]
