David MacDowell Blue

Fundamentally this lets individuals tell important life stories in a kind of rotating reader's theatre. At its best the result are flashes of healing, insight and melancholy truths. ... full review

In the moment when all other things are stripped away, we face ourselves--what we do, what we feel, how we react. THIS is the substance of this marvelous two person play taking place after the end of the world. What happened? We don't know. It doesn't matter what happened to the world. This world is now a man and woman who are supposed to love each other. ... full review

I am a huge sucker for mythology of all kind, and delving deeper into the ideas of same. So this is just candy for my imagination! I do think it needs some work, though. I wanted a longer piece--not that much longer but some. ... full review

Imagine a burlesque combination of "Shakespeare in Love" with "The Rocky Horror Show" and you have this! Delightful, baudy, with every performer giving 110% the whole premise of William Shakespeare having this elaborate dream after a night in a whorehouse, a dream in which all his future plays more or less wander in (and usually take their clothes off). Over the top? Oh yes! And that was the point!... full review

A delicious brew of humanity--humor, surprise, tragedy, love and hate, foolishness and wisdom, insight and some madness. All performed with vast skill by the cast. ... full review

Sometimes you just want to smile and laugh and enjoy. Yeah, I love me some dark angst and horror but this show DID make me smile, and laugh, and I enjoyed it a lot! I almost got up and danced!... full review

At heart, the thing I most desired to see--a sense of genuine empathy with the title character--never materialized. Which is perhaps totally personal to be fair. Nor did he come across as particularly interesting despite quiet, firm competence (coming from me, that is NOT a put down) on the part of everyone as far as I could see. Methinks the subject matter offered too much of a challenge for what I looked for.... full review

A startling, beautiful and powerful moment in the life of a great artist. Usually one-person shows try and tell a subject's biography. This took a different turn, which startled then entranced. ... full review

Shakespeare's major works end up done so often the challenge lies in making them not only good but fresh. This company and production achieved both (although I suspect some jokes went over my head, not being a regular fan of OITNB)! In particular the really difficult roles--Miranda, Ferdinand, Sebastian and Antonio--ended up engaging and real. ... full review

A wonderful show--sharp, thought-provoking, horrifying and funny at the same time for the same reasons. I sometimes talk about what I call "Theatre of Dreams" in which a performance has the logic of a dream, as if one were actually watching a dream. This is about when life becomes like a dream. Well, after all where do dreams come from if not here, the so-called real world? What a powerful piece of theatre, in which the emotions of the characters genuinely spill out into the audience like fog... full review