Articles Tagged With: Cori Dioquino

Crisis Mode: Living Pilipino in America at The Strand Theater

Reviews March 20, 2023 Erin Tarpley

Crisis Mode: Living Pilipino in America at the Strand Theater

“If every Filipino lit a candle at the same time, we would light up the world”

The popular American narrative is one based around how this nation was built on people immigrating to these shores from a variety of other lands in search of work, opportunity, or security (whether by choice or by force). Additionally, the brutal historic reality is that this narrative has always been carefully focused on specific populations at specific points in time,

Justin Lawson Isett (far right) as Old Shady, leading the company of Men On Boats in song

Men on Boats at Cohesion Theatre Company

Reviews June 7, 2017 Amanda N. Gunther

Water takes the boat people. Water catch ‘em. Water keep ‘em. A cautionary warning to those brave enough, or perhaps foolish enough, to strike out on a Government sanctioned expedition down the Colorado River through the uncharted “Big Canyon” (what we know now as The Grand Canyon) in 1869. Are you brave enough, or perhaps foolish enough, to join Cohesion Theatre Company as their close out their third season with Men on Boats,

Plunge: An Experiential Storytelling Lab at Submersive Productions

Reviews February 1, 2017 Amanda N. Gunther

We’re all stories in the end. Make it a good one, eh? Will your story be remembered? Do you want your story to be remembered? Take a chance; take a breath; submerge yourself into the story— into your own story— into their stories. Submersive Productions presents, for a limited engagement only, Plunge: An Experiential Storytelling Lab. Five wholly unique storytelling encounters, experienced in a unique and intimate one-on-one encounter, but which tales will cross your path?

Review: Neverwhere at Cohesion Theatre Company

Reviews June 3, 2016 Amanda N. Gunther

Nothing is ever easy when journeys are involved. Dare you take a journey most chimerical? Most fantastical? Up-worlders beware, darkness is happening: fantastical, phenomenal, hypnotizing darkness that crackles with the electrifying magic of #LondonBelow at Cohesion Theatre Company as they draw their second season to a close with the Baltimore premiere of Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere. Directed by Brad Norris, this ambitious beast of a production ensnares the mind and engulfs the soul for a treacherous trek into a world unseen,

The Vagina Monologues at Greenbelt Arts Center

Reviews January 27, 2014 Amanda N. Gunther

What would your vagina say if it could talk? Mine would say that you need to go see the Rude Mechanicals and their production of Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues at the Greenbelt Art Center. Co-Directed by Lauren Beward and Jaki Demarest, this particular production of the iconic feminist piece is defying the standards of which the original was formed with and setting the benchmark extremely high for all future productions.