Articles Tagged With: Chekhov

Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike at The Highwood Theatre

Reviews October 18, 2017 Amanda N. Gunther

Beware of thinking too much; enjoy the little things. Beware of missing your opportunity to see Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike; enjoy the little theatre in Silver Spring that’s putting it on. Beware of Christopher Durang’s deranged approach to Chekhov; enjoy The Highwood Theatre’s interpretation of this edgy new dark comedy. Beware critics who spend too long opening their review; enjoy instead the actual production at The Highwood Theatre.

Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike at Cockpit in Court

Reviews July 28, 2017 Cybele Pomeroy

Dances With Durang: Cockpit in Court presents Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, by the author of The Actor’s Nightmare, and it’s a theatre nerd’s dream. Cockpit in Court at CCBC Essex (formerly Essex Community College) presents Christopher Durang’s homage to Chekhov through August 6th at the Cabaret Theatre in the Robert and Eleanor Romadka College Center. This play has a morsel of everything— comedy, tragedy, suspense, horror— wait,

Review: Stupid Fucking Bird at Maryland Ensemble Theatre

Reviews February 18, 2016 Amanda N. Gunther

Do you know what passes for theatre these days? Honestly? How many of you get out of your comfortable living rooms— with your live-streaming Broadway channels on Netflix or the “new musical of the month” live on NBC— and go to the theatre, sit through two to three hours of live performance, and actually take in what you’ve just seen? The Maryland Ensemble Theatre seems to know what’s passing for live theatre and has challenged the standard,

Josh Huff-Edsall (left) as Spike, Jo Sullivan (center) as Masha and Nicole Musho (right) as Nina in Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike at Prince George's Little Theatre

Review: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike at Prince George’s Little Theatre

Reviews January 11, 2016 Amanda N. Gunther

Beware of Hootie Pie! Or perhaps just of being a wild turkey. Of waiting too long for the blue heron? Or perhaps just beware of missing a bizarre new comedy making its community area debut at Prince George’s Little Theatre this January. Brush up on your Chekhov before you go to see Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike for a titular and humorous evening; there is a good time of reflective musings and amusing reflections to be had even if you aren’t well-versed with the depressing antics of The Cherry Orchard,

Review: Life Sucks (Or the Present Ridiculous) at Theater J

Reviews January 20, 2015 Amanda N. Gunther

Theater J presents the brilliant and highly poignant new Aaron Posner play Life Sucks (Or the Present Ridiculous.) Written and subsequently Directed by Posner himself, this irreverent modern variation on Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, is a gloriously thought-provoking work that captures the minds of the audiences through laughter, tears, and strange situations. This world premier work is quite possibly the most connective piece of work to address humans as they exist in the world;

Stupid Fucking Bird- (left to right) Rick Foucheux, Brad Koed, and Darius Pierce- photo by Stan Barouh

Stupid Fucking Bird at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company

Reviews August 3, 2014 Amanda N. Gunther

This review will begin when you say “Start the fucking review!”

Presuming you’ve said that— or at the very least read that— then you’re in the right mind frame to enjoy the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company’s remount of Aaron Posner’s original work Stupid Fucking Bird. Inspired by and loosely adapted from Chekhov’s The Seagull, the production’s initial popularity has called for a resurgence in its existence.