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Theatre Review: Red Herring’s Darkly Beautiful ‘Knives in Hens’
September 20, 2019 2:30 pm
Richard Sanford
Red Herring continues its mission of bringing less-performed (in Columbus) classics to our stages with a crackling, brutal production of David Harrower’s debut Knives in Hens, directed by Penny Napoli. This tight, hundred-minute (no intermission) play centers on a rural village in a pre-industrial but post-printing press time. An unnamed young woman (Jordan Davis), married […]
Theatre Review: Broadway Across America Season Roars Out of the Gate with ‘Dear Evan Hansen’
September 18, 2019 11:00 am Richard Sanford
Dear Evan Hansen is the rare contemporary Broadway musical to captivate a wide swath of public attention. On every trip I’ve made to NYC since its transfer from Off-Broadway’s Second Stage Theater to the great white way, I’ve seen more Playbills for and overheard more conversations about this show by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul […]
Theatre Review: Ember Women’s Theatre’s Charming ‘Terms of Endearment’
September 17, 2019 9:35 am Richard Sanford
eMBer Women’s Theatre returns to the MadLab space with Terms of Endearment, directed with a sure hand by Michelle Batt with Vicki Andronis as assistant director. This Terms of Endearment boasts a script by Dan Gordon, adapted from James L. Brooks’ screenplay for his 1983 film based on Larry McMurtry’s novel. It zooms in on […]
Theatre Review: Available Light’s Explosive Season Opener, Dance Nation
September 13, 2019 3:42 pm Richard Sanford
Available Light launches their 2019-2020 season to the moon with a wrenching, hilarious production of Claire Barron’s Dance Nation directed and choreographed by Whitney Thomas Eads. Dance Nation tears into the end of the season for a Liverpool, Ohio, dance team – seven girls and one boy – on the cusp of making it to […]
Theatre Review: MadLab’s Devastating and Hopeful Fine Not Fine
September 3, 2019 12:00 pm Richard Sanford
Anyone who’s read more than two my reviews can map out my pet peeves: insufficiently dramatized; too literal; monochromatic. A new work checks off every box I’ve deducted points from other pieces for and stands as one of the most beautiful things I’ve seen on a stage all year: MadLab’s Fine Not Fine. Fine Not […]
Theatre Review: Riotous Affairs in Actors’ Theatre’s Les Liaisons Dangereuses
August 20, 2019 11:15 am Richard Sanford
Actors’ Theatre closes their 2019 Tainted Love series in the park with a handsome, stiletto-sharp production of Christopher Hampton’s hit 1985 adaptation of Pierre Choderlos de Laclos’ 1782 novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses, directed by Andy Falter and Philip J. Hickman. Les Liaisons Dangereuses focuses on the torrid friendship of two bored aristocrats, sometime-lovers and full-time-manipulators […]
Theatre Review: Red Herring’s Taut and Disturbing ‘Building the Wall’
August 12, 2019 2:00 pm Richard Sanford
The core of most good writing – if it has the nerve – is an act of love, an attempt to understand. Live theatre – by putting these characters as flesh and blood people in front of us – has a sharper direct line to empathy than most other art forms. Robert Schenkkan’s near-future dystopian […]
