BWW Review: A CHRISTMAS KADDISH at Richmond Triangle Players
by Susan Haubenstock - November 22, 2021
For a change of pace, Richmond Triangle Players’ holiday offering is an original musical, “A Christmas Kaddish.” Using flashback elements from seasonal favorites like “It’s a Wonderful Life” and “A Christmas Carol,” the show takes an unusually serious look at life, death and love....
BWW Review: PIPELINE at Virginia Rep
by Susan Haubenstock - October 26, 2021
Dominique Morisseau's 2019 play--one of the most-produced plays of that year--hurls the audience into the emotions that surface when schoolteacher Nya's son Omari is threatened with being diverted from his private boarding school into the notorious school-to-prison pipeline....
BWW Review: THE NICETIES at The Conciliation Lab
by Susan Haubenstock - October 03, 2021
'The Niceties' is Eleanor Burgess's 2018 drama in which a white professor and a Black undergraduate argue over provocative issues of race and history--an excellent choice for The Conciliation Lab's season opener....
BWW Review: WAR IN PIECES at Firehouse Theatre
by Susan Haubenstock - September 30, 2021
Firehouse Theatre presents a program of four world-premiere one-act plays written by military veterans, taken from their lives in service in different eras....