theater
Take me to your reader: ‘Don Quixote,’ ‘Daily Worker’ for Florida’s cigarmakers
March 10, 2025The production has elements of proletarian theater and uses Brechtian techniques. Ybor City is also imaginatively staged in cinematic ways, incorporating projections of waves, the moon, musicians and more, plus a montage at the end.
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‘Alabaster’: The physical scars are healed now, but how about the spirit?
March 10, 2025I am beginning to believe the Fountain Theatre is constitutionally infallible. I can’t think of a play I’ve seen here that hasn’t met the highest standards of artistry.
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‘Four Women in Red’: Where are the missing and murdered Indigenous women?
February 27, 2025Indigenous women are currently facing an epidemic of violence, with some of the highest rates of physical and sexual violence in the nation.
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‘Bacon’ stageplay explores sexuality, toxic masculinity, and class politics
February 11, 2025The play explores the fraught relationship between two troubled young men as they come to grips with their sexuality and trauma.
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‘Evanston Salt Costs Climbing’: Is humanity doomed to self-destruction?
January 28, 2025“The people in this play want very much to connect with each other,” writes director Guillermo Cienfuegos in a program note. “They need it—but that fear and anxiety [get] in the way,” “[e]specially right now; political...
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