When Shorts Gone Wild first appeared five years ago, the somewhat risqué spin on City Theatre’s Summer Shorts paradigm tried to be a little daring, a little naughty. Each [...]

August 22, 2017 FacebookTwitter Christine Dolen, Correspondent Top of Form When “Shorts Gone Wild” began, the often-raunchier cousin to City Theatre’s popular “Summer Shorts Festival” aimed [...]

“I will obliterate those who oppress and repress people they do not understand,” the ambitious, young, wide-eyed, if a bit naïve man proclaims confidently. “And [...]

The Goldberg Variations” (with some slight modifications to the title) is a challenging harpsichord piece by Johann Sebastian Bach, a career-altering recording of that piece [...]

The Goldbergs are a typical family: argumentative, secretive and resentful, prone to putting faith in personal mythology that may have no bearing on reality but [...]

"Perfect Arrangement" starts off like a zany sitcom from the 1950s. But as the comedy plays out, things become less "I Love Lucy" and more [...]

Island City Stage Challenges With Gripping Octopus By Michelle F. Solomon Steve Yockey may be a modern day version of Jean Paul Sartre. Sartre? What [...]

Fresh off the accolades for its world premiere of Michael McKeever’s Daniel’s Husband — which earned best production, best new work and best actor honors at this [...]

When Topher Payne’s Perfect Arrangement bowed in 2013, the satirical indictment of homophobia, hypocrisy and a half-dozen other themes was a witty and insightful commentary. In the [...]

The First Step (Diary of a Sex Addict), which makes the rounds of video porn parlors, urinals, gay baths and sessions of a self-help group, [...]