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Review: A reunion finds the perfect balance between tension and levity in ‘Tape’
Stage Comments Dec 19, 2012 3:42pmChaos Theatre’s production of Tape, now playing at Las Vegas Little Theatre’s Black Box, is totally watchable and, at moments, downright entertaining — as long as you don’t let the whole rape thing...
“Love Song” is a surprisingly emotional play
Stage Comments Updated: Dec 19, 2012 3:07pmJohn Kolvenbach’s Love Song, presented by Cockroach Theatre, is a heartbreaking and funny tale of love, awakening and impenetrable human suffering — just right for the holiday season.The play centers...
Review: Our ailing critic tries to make sense of Nevada Conservatory Theatre’s heady Arcadia
Stage Comments Dec 05, 2012 5:39pmI warned audiences back in September that Nevada Conservatory Theatre’s go at Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia would be a heady affair. That said, going into it in a post-tooth-extraction, hydrocodone-fueled...
The end is nigh in sharply funny, postapocalyptic “Boom”
Stage Comments Updated: Dec 05, 2012 4:28pmAssuming the Mayans had it right, we’ve got just more than three weeks before the end of the world as we know it. What better time than this weekend, then, to grab a date, a friend, or a casual...
Review: Ah, Wilderness is sweet-tooth nostalgia
Stage Comments Nov 14, 2012 4:10pmIf the threat of being thrust back several generations by the Republican Party didn’t give you enough of a scare, you now have the chance to travel even further back in time, to the saccharine-sweet...
Review: A familiar divisiveness colors The Mineola Twins
Stage Comments Nov 07, 2012 3:39pmThe good thing about seeing a play a week into its production is it can give the director and actors time to make adjustments and get into their groove. The not-so-great thing, at least for Cockroach...
Women as jerks: The ladies have a go at Glengarry Glen Ross
Stage Comments Oct 31, 2012 5:41pmIn an intro screenwriting class, a professor’s often fervent only on a few rules, usually careful not to spurn or dehydrate creative juices. Most of the rules can be found in 2002’s Adaptation, in...
Talking with the director of Martin McDonagh’s “The Pillowman”
Stage Comments Oct 17, 2012 6:25pmDirector Lysander Abadia is enjoying a serendipitous turn of events, as his production (with Poor Richard’s Players) of Martin McDonagh’s chilling 2003 play The Pillowman opens at Las Vegas Little...
Woody Allen’s “God” asks big ideas and scores big laughs
Stage Comments Oct 03, 2012 6:17pmIf ever there is such a thing as an existential “romp,” it’s Woody Allen’s God, an absurd one-act comedy totally befitting of a theater company called Chaos, which is performing it at Onyx Theatre....
Cockroach Theatre endures a decade of obstacles to land its own downtown performance space
Stage Comments Updated: Oct 03, 2012 5:39pmCockroaches are scavengers — pests that can survive nuclear-level destruction. Which is to say, cockroaches might some day inherit the Earth. One thing’s for sure: They’ve already taken a permanent...
