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“The Swan”: Hyping the transformative possibilities of love

When it comes to men, Dora (Whitney Ellis) is accommodating to a fault. Married milkman Kevin (Matthew Anderson) is merely…

2 months ago

“Elves 1989” Will Tickle Only a Specific Sort of Funny Bone

Kirsten (Rease Thresher) knows that she doesn’t like Christmas. What she doesn’t know is that her grandfather was Nazi scientist…

4 months ago

“Seven Days to Mexican”: Whose culture is it, anyway?

Ostensibly, the main purpose of a theatre review is to provide intel for those who might be interested in a…

6 months ago

Garage Theatre’s annual “melodrama” is about as good as it’s gonna get

More than half of the Garage Theatre’s 25 seasons have closed with an installment of co-founder Jamie Sweet’s five-part “melodrama”…

11 months ago

“Predictor” an entertaining history of the at-home pregnancy test

The story of how a 20-something woman with no science background designed the first way for women to find out…

1 year ago

Enjoyable ensemble performance makes “Witch” wholly worthwhile

Have you been feeling like all is lost? Think our capitalistic reality is so far gone that maybe the only…

1 year ago

One-time “reality TV” star shows real talent in one-woman play

I don’t know who the fuck Bekah Martinez is. Google says “Former TV personality” — The Bachelor, 2018. I can’t…

1 year ago

“Tragedy Gift Shop” more fable than play

Commonplace gun violence. Exploitation. Sensationalism. Amoral corporate greed. This is today’s America, and it’s enough to make you want to…

2 years ago

Garage Theatre turns 25 by the grace of community

When I sat down with a quartet of Garage Theatre co-founders in 2010 as they got ready to celebrate their…

2 years ago

Garage Theatre’s annual “melodrama” energetic and silly as always

For those unfamiliar with melodrama, on opening night director Rob Young defined it as “basically a cartoon.” That’s not quite…

2 years ago