Performance Critiques
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.
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.
The Lost Girls: Paying Debt to Monstrous Mothers, Murdered Bluestockings, and Sallie Mae
Emily George and the review team analyze Annex Theatre's production of Courtney Meaker's horror comedy The Lost Girls and its feminist queer energy.
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.