Rasika Mathur

IKIGAI - a purpose for living - / Hybrid Show

rasika mathur · September 13, 2021 certified reviewer
In a quick wiki search, “common features of the [Butoh] art form include playful and grotesque imagery, taboo topics, extreme or absurd environments … traditionally performed in white body makeup with slow hyper-controlled motion.” The facial contortions performed must have been so much fun to rehearse. Nobody’s getting a double chin in this cast! When joy radiates out of the mouth, eyes and chest, we can see it! Even in non-Butoh life! And pain? I concluded that pain mostly lives in the betra... full review

POCKETS

rasika mathur · June 26, 2019 certified reviewer
If I’m singing these tunes on the way to my car afterwards, I’m thinking this is the kind of musical that I would have loved to walk out of the theater holding the SOUNDTRACK ON COMPACT DISC. CD’S! Remember those, people? I did that with Rent and I would do that with Pockets. ... full review

Butcher Holler Here We Come!

rasika mathur · June 23, 2019 certified reviewer
Short of actual soot in my lungs, this one gave me all the feels! ... full review

The Flower Society

rasika mathur · June 23, 2019 certified reviewer
Didn’t want to leave the theater after this one ended. Found it hard to get up, given the weight of what I’d just seen. When a play does this to me, it did something right.... full review

Jamba Juice: The Musical

rasika mathur · June 20, 2019 certified reviewer
Jamba Juice the Musical. Why WOULDN’T you?... full review

Tattered Capes

rasika mathur · June 10, 2019 certified reviewer
Every single or married woman needs to see this. Everyone who wants to fit in needs to see this. Everyone who loves sneering shadowy bad guys needs to see this. Everyone who loves the action, SFX and special fx of the 60’s style Batman series needs to see this.... full review

She Kills Monsters

rasika mathur · June 09, 2019 certified reviewer
Excellent play that takes full advantage of the Arena space. Great cast that love playing with each other. You don’t even have to understand D&D to get the jokes! Fight choreography!!!! Steeeeeve!... full review

Livin' the Dream (a journalistic journey)

rasika mathur · June 08, 2019 certified reviewer
Come see the road Bob has travelled and why he truly is a Hollywood Fringe Festival Treasure.... full review

blackboxing

rasika mathur · June 06, 2019 certified reviewer
MY FACE HURTS. Make it stop. This show made my cheeks hurt from smiling and laughing. I said STOP.... full review

The Goddesses Guide: Adura for the Women of African Diaspora

rasika mathur · June 22, 2018 certified reviewer
I absolutely cannot say enough about this play: it is a visually stunning, poetically written, beautifully acted, contagiously choreographed, audible treat.... full review