Category: Theatre Reviews

January 10, 2024 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Leura Everglades, January 6 9.5/10 This explodes like a new star in the firmament of the best Shakespeare productions I’ve seen. It has a truth, an energy and a ferocity to make the blood drain from your face, and it also begs the question, why is Timon of Athens the…

January 9, 2024 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Riverside Theatre, January 4 5.5/10 Bananaland can certainly be cute, but it can also be trashy. Were it bottled, it would be shocking pink or lime green, come with a high-sugar warning, and explode when you opened it. Instead it’s a crazily schizophrenic musical – a Banana Split, if you…

December 21, 2023 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

KXT on Broadway, December 13 7/10 Alan Bennett had not encountered Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows as a child, and was deeply suspicious of dramatizing it. Toad apart, he thought the characters muted, and besides, it incorporated horses, cars, trains and barges. He set about it, nonetheless, and…