Performance Critiques
Politics Again, Politics Otherwise: Lingering Questions from Frost/Nixon
Jenny Van Houdt and the review team query and answer the questions brought up by Strawberry Theatre Workshop's timely production of Frost/Nixon: Why This Play? Why Women? Why Here and Now?
The Curse of Gender and Empty Promise of Urbanization in Modern-Day China
Kate Forster and the review team uncover the possibilities of the "unrealized potential" in Desdemona Chiang's "puzzling interpretation" of The World of Extreme Happiness.
Performing Immigration (sort of): Donald Byrd’s ‘The Immigrants’
Laura Chrisman and the review team question the in/visibility of immigrants and American citizens in Donald Byrd’s (Spectrum Dance Theater) ‘The Immigrants’.
The Breeches Role: Bring Down the House Parts 1 & 2
Emily George and team review Seattle Shakespeare's & upstart crow collective's fast-paced collaboration of a Henry IV adaptation and its focus on gender and power: Bring Down the House Parts 1 & 2.
Problems of Race, Class and Labor Reign in The Cherry Orchard
Steph Hankinson and Emily George examine The Seagull's Project ambitious and bold connections of race, class, and labor in The Cherry Orchard.
It's Not Too Late: Take a Good, Hard, Long Look at Yourself
Andrea Iaroc and the review team highlight the sociopolitical commentary of Markeith Wiley’s experimental talk show It's Not Too Late at On the Boards.
Bad Apples: Who Let This Happen?
Sara Porkalob asks "who let this happen" of Jim Leonard's Bad Apples—a semi-fictional rock musical account of the 2003 prisoner abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq at ACT Theatre.