A REVIEW BY THE BAD ORACLE I was standing in line at the grocery store the other day behind a group of teenagers, and it struck me that literally anywhere can be a theater, if you try hard enough. There were plot lines, and definitely a lot of hair, and makeup, and typecasting, and projected voices. At one point there
Read more
A REVIEW BY THE BAD ORACLE I would like to start this review with the reason for its existence. Terrence McNally’s Corpus Christi was originally slated to run at Iron Crow Theatre beginning April 6th. In late March, accusations of professional and sexual misconduct directed at Iron Crow leadership started to come out in the community, accusations that the cast
Read moreUpdate, as of 12/7: This morning, I disabled the Anonymous Safety Alert Report form. Thank you to all that contributed to this interim measure to foster better community accountability and to collect data. The scenarios presented will be collated (with names and identifying details removed) and that data will be given to the group that is now working on putting
Read moreI need to start this post by saying that I am so, so sorry. I am sorry that this took so long. I am sorry that I brought TBO back to publish a review, and not to comment on this. I am sorry that I’m willing to be a leader in our community when it’s about writing about theater and
Read more
A REVIEW BY THE BAD ORACLE [Couple of notes here: We’re not back. Not really. Because I cannot manage to keep my mouth totally shut, I’ll review here and there, but TBO is not currently “active” as a site – meaning we are not reviewing regularly, keeping a staff, or accepting review requests. But this is a spook show, and
Read more
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
Read more
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
Read more