With Gaslight, the Irish Repertory Theatre is presenting an old fashioned melodrama that offers keenly crafted suspense, albeit a bit creaky at the joints.
What's almost as raunchy and obscene as Jerry Springer's no-holds barred television show. Why, Jerry Springer-The Opera, of course. Now, rousing people at the Bailiwick Theater in Chicago.
Thank goodness there were some stories left to tell. In Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell, there's enough going on to add up to a vivid portrait of his background and worldview.
Don't Quit Your Night Job, the comedy-improv show, may not break new ground, but there are moments of sheer madness, in this oft-silly night out at the theater.
With Radio Golf, August Wilson's majestic cycle of Afro-American life in the 20th Century has come to an end. Unbelievably, he's given us a play for every decade--with memorable characters to match.
