Ashley Steed

Mission of Flowers at Theatre Asylum by Ashley Steed~ “In life there are winners and losers. No in-betweens.” For pioneer aviator Bill Lancaster, he certainly wasn’t a winner; but after seeing Mission of Flowers by Gerry Greenland, I don’t think anyone would have the heart to say he was a loser. Based on a true story, the play chronicles Lancaster’s plane crash in the middle of the Sahara and incidents in his life leading up to that point. Stranded with little water and a journal, Lancaster w... full review

The moon shines across the night sky. Sounds of crickets and lightly rustling leaves fill the night air. There’s a howl in the distance. Turning towards the howl you see a…girl? In fact, there’s an entire pack of girls. Wolf girls. No, no no. Totally unacceptable – they need to be reformed into proper young ladies – From Lycan to I can! Quick! Only the nuns can save them, naturally. This hilarious tale based loosely on Karen Russell’s imaginative short story St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by... full review

Can’t You Hear Me Knockin? is not just a Rolling Stones song. Kerri Randles’s hilarious one-woman show depicting her life of sex, music and cars certainly entertains. Raised by an emotionally unavailable dad who hid under his toupée and an emotionally too available mother who put parenting aside to feel like a woman, Randles searches for love behind every door. Enthralled by every word of Pamela Des Barres I’m With the Band, she clings to a twisted romantic notion of the groupie. Eventually after... full review

Lambeth Sterling has gone through years of therapy, meditation, visualization, levitation, affirmations and even lived in an ashram – all so we won’t have to. She recounts stories from her childhood, boyfriends and less than sound advice from her parents. At age 12 she asked her mother about babies and where they come from. Her mother’s reply? “It’s called rape!” I think it’s easy to deduce that Sterling’s love life is going to suffer from this miscommunication. Thus, Sterling goes on a path o... full review