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    Did theater panic at the invention of movies? Did it happen again with television? I feel like every other year (pandemic notwithstanding) there are a thousand overblown articles about what’s

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Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberly – Something about Mary

12/12/2020 Leave a comment

Did theater panic at the invention of movies? Did it happen again with television? I feel like every other year (pandemic notwithstanding) there are a

Winter Haunts – The First Thing That Happens, Hamlet

03/04/2020 Leave a comment

BY THE BAD ORACLE Late winter isn’t exactly the right time for ghost stories, despite the uneasiness of transitional seasons, but Baltimore small theater is

Lizzie: The Musical – A Frenzied Climaxe

10/05/2019 Leave a comment

A REVIEW BY THE BAD ORACLE Lizzie Andrew Borden, true-crime buff’s darling and (seeming) center of Lizzie: The Musical, was acquitted of the murder of

Perfect Arrangement – The Style At the Time

09/16/2019 Leave a comment

Photography by Shealyn Jae A REVIEW BY THE BAD ORACLE Topher Payne’s Perfect Arrangement, as directed by Patrick Gorirossi, zips and zings along so merrily for

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead – Don’t Stoppard

04/28/2019 Leave a comment

A REVIEW BY THE BAD ORACLE Tom Stoppard was 27 when he wrote Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and it shows.  It’s definitely got that

Frankenstein – I Go To Pieces

03/06/2019 Leave a comment

A REVIEW BY THE BAD ORACLE Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s Frankenstein, like most Important And Classic Novels, really only has like one good part.  A mad

Jerusalem – I’ll Cry if I Want to

01/30/2019 Leave a comment

A REVIEW BY THE BAD ORACLE The first few moments into FPCT’s Jerusalem are absolutely horrible.   A disheveled man swans and swaggers his way across

Thank You, Dad – So Terribly Betrayed

01/15/2019 Leave a comment

A REVIEW BY THE BAD ORACLE Lance Bankerd doesn’t so much play Jim Jones (the cult leader who was the direct cause of death of

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THE BAD ORACLE:
I live and work in Baltimore. So yeah, I know a ton of the people I review. Bias is real, it exists in me and everyone else – hence the BAD oracle. I don’t review shows with my actual relatives associated with them, but other than that all bets are off. What can I say? You’ll have to deal with it, but here’s my promise: I’m biased, but I ain’t stupid. I’ve got a (useless, as it turned out) degree in this shit and I know good theater. Small facts, though: everyone who reviews theater in every town everywhere knows everyone onstage and off. People are too nosy to have it be any other way. Reviewers who deny it are lying 100% of the time. Pissed about this? Don’t read my reviews and we’re square. I don’t use my real name here because I work at a job where people make a frowny face when I say “fuck” and I dearly love to say “fuck”- but it ain’t too hard to figure out who I am if you know what’s what. I don’t care, just don’t get me fired, yeah?

ACHILLES FEELS:
I love Baltimore, I love Baltimore theatre… but I think it could be better. I’m reviewing alongside The Bad Oracle as a way to help expand what theatre is, can be, and will be in Baltimore. I’m going to tell people how awesome they are, or how awesome they could be. A lot of the shows I review have actors, directors, production staff, designers, or others that are my friends or even my arch-enemies. Even though I love and cherish these people (keep your enemies close!) I promise to be frank and honest in my reviews. I won’t hold anything back, and praise will be duly delivered. I’m in the business of theatre myself, but I’m not a genius. I don’t know everything. But I do know what I like and I know good theatre. Venues, box office people, ushers, tech folks, and program designers, please don’t think you’re off the hook. I’m looking at you too. If you don’t like my opinion, I invite you to voice it in response to my reviews, but I reserve the right to rebuttal with a loving “fuck you.” Some of what I say will be harsh, some will be sweet but I’ve got a weakness in my heel: BAD THEATRE.

 

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