Vikas Dhurka’s Airport Anxiety Flies Off the Charts by Susan Dunn In our high-powered, charged-up lives, where do we most need to feel safe and secure? The airport, of course. But “hurry up and wait” airport protocols can lull us into carelessness with our most precious possession—our identity. Naatak Theater’s new play “Airport Insecurity: A…
Samuel Beckett’s Most Animated Void by Susan Dunn Samuel Beckett accomplished the impossible when he wrote “Waiting for Godot” in 1949, the classic absurdist play about the vacuity of life. Ubuntu Theater Project’s version, with Inferno Theater, illuminates our lives with its mesmerizing actions and reactions, punctuated by spectacular comic rants. Ubuntu offers the full spectrum…
Flappers, Molls, and Wise Guys Sing and Slink by Susan Dunn “I know a dark secluded place. A place where no one knows your face, just strike a match…” “The Speakeasy” invites us into the dark, forbidden past. The doorway to our evening is secret. We meet a man on the street in a…
Hip-Hop Darling Spawns “1776” Revivals by Susan Dunn “Hamilton: An American Musical,” with its 16 Tony nominations and 11 Tony Awards, has rolled out a revolution across the theater world by sparking revivals of another musical about the U.S. Revolution. Wherever we turn we see the American Revolution back on stage in “1776,” -with…