The Youth Are F**ked. Confusingly F**ked If You Ask Me.December 2, 2024
“Wherefore Art Thou…?” is the question that was on my mind during this take on a Shakespearean classic.
Is Televangelism Worth The Broadway Stage?November 10, 2024
God is good, God is great, God loves EVERYONE. These are things I believe in every single day of my life even when I’m at my lowest. When it comes to “Tammy Faye” at the Palace, it isn’t really good, it isn’t really great, but its message of love EVERYONE is thriving.
Beauty, Death, and Camp At It's Finest!November 10, 2024
Glitz. Darkly Comical. Undeniably Campy! These are the descriptions I would use to describe the darkly magical splendor that is “Death Becomes Her.”
She's Come Home At Last!November 10, 2024
It always feels like a once in a lifetime in experience where your in a theatre and you feel like you’re truly, TRULY enamored with a show that you feel like you’re floating and never want to come down. I believe that sums up my experience of seeing the astonishing masterpiece that is The Jaime Lloyd Co.’s production of “Sunset Blvd.”
RDJ + AI = A Compelling-If-Slighlty-Gap-Filled Night At LCTNovember 10, 2024
It’s no secret that AI is both a beneficial tool and the bane of many human workers’ existence. Personally, it’s hard for even me to find a gray area on the subject, probably because I’ve never felt a need to use it. Yet many people use it for writing purposes, but how does it fully benefit a writer in terms of telling a compelling story? It can draw ideas, mostly from other texts, but it won’t exactly be truly original. Come to think of it, nothing in the world of storytelling is completely original anymore; many plot structures and character archetypes/arcs get reused time and time again (I should know; I’m a writer and I’ve probably gone through a plethora of stock whatever). But what if a writer began to depend quite heavily on other stories and AI, and used it to manufacture almost an entire career? That here is a question examined in LCT’s premiere of “McNeal,” by Ayad Akhtar.
An All-Too-Familiar-Yet-Performance-Driven TropeOctober 1, 2024
To say I was quite surprised by this one is an overstatement. I was quite content with it is more the phrasing I would use in describing Jen Silverman’s “The Roommate.” This is a play that could likely be pulled out of an everyday sitcom or even the plays of the golden days of the theatre. While nostalgia is nice, it’s also nice to see things that are fresh and add something entirely new to an existing format. I didn’t quite feel that was the case with this one.
A "Shy" Revival? Not At All!October 1, 2024
Quirky, charming, and delightfully corny are the three descriptions I’d use in describing “Once Upon A Mattress.”
A Bloody, Spine-Tingling, And Personally Historic Homecoming Indeed!September 1, 2024
“The blood is the life! The blood is the life!” I think that sums up what my next project is about, don’t you think?
A Murder, A Green Man, & Forbidden Desire. Oh My!August 5, 2024
And now the moment you’ve all been waiting for. I’m proud to announce the 3 shows I’ll be taking part in this month for Shakespeare In The Valley/Theater Under The Stars 19th Season.
Come On! Feel The Illinoise!July 11, 2024
Wow. Wow, wow, wow. That was the only word Nick and I could muster up after leaving the St. James. But after a few days of post-show processing, let’s see if I can do more justice than simply “wow.”
