Review: Lex the Movie Expands as Within a Shadow by Red Theater
I saw myself as a character on the stage at the Den Theatre. It was weird and exhilarating to see the everyday struggles of a young Black woman making her […]
Review: Red Theater’s Hamlet Is Intimate and Text-Driven
It’s the top of the first act. As the lights come down and the guards enter, those familiar with Shakespeare’s famous piece know what is about to happen. The guards […]
Review: Red Theater’s Caveman Play Tells Its Story via a Playful Dialogue With the Audience
Nothing about the set of Caveman Play is very primal. Yes, there is a fire in the center of what is presumably a cave, but it crackles silently amid soft elevator music, […]
Red Theater’s An Oak Tree Is an Intellectual Exercise Mixing Dream and Reality
I admire experimentation in theater, whether it’s setting a familiar Shakespearean tale behind a vinyl screen in some post-modern setting (as Gift Theatre did with Hamlet recently) or telling the […]
In Red Theater’s Brutal Sickle, Four Village Women Try to Survive the Ukrainian Genocide
One of the missions of theater is to tell untold stories, as Elizabeth Lovelady points out in her director’s note for Sickle, the new production at Red Theater. The story […]