Play review
August 28th online 65th anniversary reading of ‘The Ballad of Emmett Till’
August 26, 2020The Fountain Theatre has a long and esteemed history of producing and often premiering plays addressing the African-American experience, as well as other topics from a socially progressive standpoint.
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Black teenager shot by white cop: The play ‘Scraps’ for home viewing
June 9, 2020In a provocative mash-up of poetry, realism, and expressionism, Scraps boldly chronicles how the family and friends of a black teenager shot by a white police officer struggle to cope in the aftermath.
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‘Taming the Lion’ tells the story of openly gay MGM actor William Haines
March 17, 2020A world premiere play that recently opened at Theatre 40 here tells the story of William Haines, at one time renowned as the world’s Number 1 Box Office male movie star.
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‘Antigone, Presented by the Girls of St. Catherine’s’: On- and offstage lives
March 9, 2020Award-winning playwright Madhuri Shekar is the latest in this venerable lineage, injecting a female, (South Asian) Indian, and 21st-century sensibility with her idiosyncratic take on the iconic Grecian legend.
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A traitor’s trial in ‘Roberto Devereux’: The unprivate lives of Elizabeth and Essex
February 26, 2020For its stellar stagecraft and affecting bel canto lyricism, I do indeed heartily recommend that opera-goers see, hear and enjoy Roberto Devereux.
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