Theatre

The DalTheatre production of John Thelwall’s The Fairy of the Lake faced at least two very large challenges. The first was to make a century-old play (written in verse, to boot) interesting and entertaining to a modern audience. The second was to stage it in the insanely difficult confines of Dal’s David Mack. Murray Theatre. […]

Rum and vodka is a miracle elixir, or so says the hard-drinking, shit-out -of-luck young man in Irish playwright Conor McPherson’s one-man play of the same name. No matter how low this guy slides, and believe me, he reaches some pretty low lows in his three day alcoholic bender, this concoction gives just the jolt he needs to surface again. The play is filled with remarkable detail—things that make your heart break even as you hear yourself laughing out loud. (Best example: The confrontation in the grocery store that has the man revealing to his wife that he’s lost his

The first-ever Queer Acts Theatre Festival is off to a brilliant start with the affecting one-man show Obaberima and the Zuppa’s lovely little lyrical work Very Secret Ceremony.

A play that brings Shakespeare to life–in more ways than one.