Review by John R. Ziegler and Leah Richards for Thinking Theatre NYC February 23, 2024 The title of Deb Margolin‘s new play, This is not a time of peace, is spoken twice in the course of the performance, each time in reference to a different era. This doubling not only draws attention to historical...
THE FLATLANDERS World Premiere at 1812 Productions in Philadelphia, PA
Running January 25 – February 18th, get your tickets HERE. “Childs and Greer’s comic skills have only grown with time, and they give ample evidence here of their status as Philadelphia living treasures” -Philadelphia Magazine The FlatlandersWritten by Bruce GrahamStarring Jennifer Childs and Scott Greer Directed by Matt Pfeiffer A Poconos blizzard puts a...
Kansas City’s Coterie Theatre Announces Khalia Davis as New Producing Artistic Director
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Coterie Theatre in Kansas City officially has new artistic leadership. On Wednesday, the acclaimed children’s theater announced that Khalia Davis will be stepping into the role of Producing Artistic Director. Davis inherits the role from interim artistic director Heidi Van, who has led artistic programming since February of 2023...
Review: How Will the World End? Fire, Ice or Water? In Flood at Shattered Globe, the Answer Is Water
By Nancy S Bishop for Third Coast Review Shattered Globe Theatre’s new play, Flood, is about family issues—parents who don’t understand their children, children who never call home, elderly parents who ignore the realities of today’s world. There may be nothing new about that, but the clever script by Mashuq Mushtaq Deen starts a smart, lightning-quick...
At WNO’s American Opera Initiative, three glimpses into the future
But the highlight of the evening was its centerpiece, “Forever” — quite easily the strangest opera I’ve ever seen. Rather than dig into humanity for material, composer Elizabeth Gartman and librettist Melisa Tien dispose of it altogether, opting instead for a world populated by humanistic petrochemicals and tenacious microorganisms. Thus, “Forever” stages a meet-cute...