A REVIEW BY THE BAD ORACLE When a Shakespearean company decides to do A Midsummer Night’s Dream, it signals to me that a few things might be going on. The first is that they need to either open or close the season with a crowd pleaser. You can do all the Antony and Cleopatra‘s you want, but the fact is
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A REVIEW BY THE BAD ORACLE *This is The Bad Oracle’s “staff pass” disclosure: someone involved in this production is a member of the staff of The Bad Oracle. The individual did not write or participate in writing this review. This is an exception to our usual disclaimer(s), which is why it is here. Watching The Manhattan Project’s version of
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A REVIEW BY THE BAD ORACLE Some girls just want to have fun, and some girls just want to have fundamental, split (and potentially homicidal!) personalities. At least, that’s the theory behind Stillpointe Theatre’s exuberant, irreverent, totally bonkers version of Charles Busch’s Psycho Beach Party, a wild mash-up of the 60’s beach party film genre and 70’s psychological thrillers with
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A REVIEW BY THE BAD ORACLE It’s a shame the way historical information is presented and subsequently digested, especially to and by kids. I should know, I was the director of an American History museum for six years. The issue is that we are, as a public, so used to seeing museum exhibits and textbook sidebars with names like: “Women’s
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A REVIEW BY THE BAD ORACLE There is a risk inherent in seeing a piece of theater you really love, isn’t there? I get edgy going to a Samuel Beckett in a way that I don’t when attending say, Suessical (which, nope, no thank you, never, it’s my blog, can’t make me). I am hopelessly devoted to absurdist theater, and no, I’m
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A REVIEW BY THE BAD ORACLE [title of show] is an interesting concept because it’s a show about success disguised as a show about failure. In 2004, Jeff Bowen and Hunter Bell, two youngish wanna-be Broadway writer/producer/composers, were struggling to come up with a good idea for a musical. [title of show] is the result of the pair of them looking around
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A REVIEW BY PANDORA LOCKS So, we’ve just finished tax season, and good riddance. I fucking hate taxes. I cannot, for the life of me, even with a fucking Masters Degree, do my taxes. I get stressed, I drink, I try again, get pissed, drink more, and the cycle repeats until I, defeated and dejected, head upstairs to bed and
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