For many of us, our teenage years are frightening, hormone-filled affairs, full of desperation and insecurity. This time of life is a common subject for media, but it's surprising how much of this media fails to capture the actual teenage experience. So much of it is imbued with sunny, nostalgic optimism, saccharine sentimentality, or sexy misadventure, that it fails to capture the … Continue reading Hyde Park’s ‘The Wolves’ is a warm and witty wonder
Grief has become a popular theme in media. We've all seen the story of a family getting together after the death of one of its members, and every plot point along the way has quickly become cliché. Therefore, its with some trepidation that I came into "Storm Still", the latest production from the Vortex Rep, … Continue reading ‘Storm Still’ is a dynamic look at grief through the lens of a Shakespeare classic
A gloomy mansion on the moors, two mysterious sisters, a hidden relative in the attic, deceit in the air: these are all elements of good gothic horror, and it's from this skeleton that writer Jen Silverman builds her bizarre feminist fable, The Moors, now given a bold, intelligent production at Hyde Park Theatre. Part of … Continue reading Gothic romance gets a feminist twist in Hyde Park’s ‘The Moors’
Thanks the world phenomenon that was Hamilton, and an Oscar nomination for his work on Disney's Moana, Lin-Manuel Miranda has quickly become a household name, but before he was treading the boards as a founding father or singing for the president, he was winning over musicals fans with his vibrant, joyous look at life in … Continue reading Zach’s ‘In the Heights’ is a lively, sizzling start to the summer season
Marie Antoinette, Charlotte Corday, and Marianne Angelle meet in the salon of celebrated feminist writer Olympe de Gouges, each of them wanting some piece of writing that will change, or perhaps, end their lives. This is the story behind Lauren Gunderson's original and bold new play, The Revolutionists, given an all-too relevant production by the talented … Continue reading ‘The Revolutionists’ is a funny, but ferocious, feminist fable
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