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Review The Brightest Thing in the World by About Face Theatre—Realism to the Point of Cringe

Romance is difficult enough in real life, but it’s damn-near impossible on the stage. Balancing the fictive chemicals of genuine-seeming attraction is a science to challenge our best artists. Success […]

  • Adam Kaz
  • March 26, 2024
    • Stages , Theater

    Review: The Gulf by About Face Theatre—Two Women Stuck in a Relationship—and a Fishing Boat

    Two women on a fishing boat in the Alabama Delta. One casts and sometimes reels in…nothing. The other alternately suns, dozes and reads. It’s late afternoon on a hot, humid […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • January 20, 2020
    • Stages , Theater

    Review: About Face’s Time Is on Our Side Shines a Light on Queer History

    Queering history is the theme of Time Is on Our Side by R. Eric Thomas, now at About Face Theatre. It’s the story of podcast creators Annie and Curtis; their […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • March 9, 2018
    • Stages , Theater

    Re-Imagining of I Am My Own Wife at About Face Offers Mixed Results

    Based on the life of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, Doug Wright’s Pulitzer and Tony-winning play I Am My Own Wife is typically performed as a one-person show by a male actor. […]

  • Brent Eickhoff
  • November 14, 2016
    • Stages , Theater

    A Tree Falls in About Face’s The Secretaries, & Everyone Hears It

    There are few things in life that I am comfortable in saying make complete sense: the science behind the salty-sweetness of a chocolate-covered pretzel, the inevitable success of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s […]

  • Lauren Garcia
  • May 18, 2016
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