Too Much, Too Much, Too ManyMeghan KennedyDragon Productions Theatre CompanyMary Price Moore & Kelly BattcherPresented with just the right mix of smiles and tears, silliness and seriousness, bittersweet and bitterness, Dragon Productions Theatre Company has assembled four outstandingly cast actors in a staging of the Off Broadway, 2013 Roundabout … [Read more...] about “Too Much, Too Much, Too Many”
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“U.S. Drag”
U.S. DragGina GionfriddoDragon Productions Theatre CompanyJosiah Frampton, Liz Frederick, Olivia Haas & Jeremy Ryan Planes did not fall out of the air nor all ATM screens go completely blank as was predicted, but according to Gina Gionfriddo’s 2002 master’s-thesis-born play, U.S. Drag, something did happen to all those twenty-somethings we now call Millennials as we all … [Read more...] about “U.S. Drag”
“Or,”
Or,Liz Duffy AdamsDragon Productions Theatre Company Kathryn HanThe plague has ravaged, a fire has leveled, and seemingly endless wars have demoralized a late 1660s London that is also still trying to recover from eleven years of so-called moral cleansing by anti-monarchist Oliver Cromwell. Like a Phoenix rising from the flames and ashes, the … [Read more...] about “Or,”
“The Voice of the Prairie”
The Voice of the PrairieJohn OliveDragon Productions Theatre CompanyMaria Giere Marquis and Robert Sean Campbell“The world is a strange world, isn’t it, where wooden boxes can pull ghosts out of the sky.” And in the 1923 world of John Olive’s The Voice of the Prairie,” these radio boxes provide a wonderful medium to relate a nostalgic story chocked full of many other … [Read more...] about “The Voice of the Prairie”
“The Star without a Name”
The Star without a NameTranslated & Adapted by Ana-Catrina Buchser from Mihail Sebastian’sSteaua fara numeDragon 2nd StagesIn a small Romanian, 1942 town, life is as routine and predictable as the trains that daily speed by, only occasionally pausing just long enough to drop off passenger and package at its tiny, one-desk station. On one otherwise normal evening, a … [Read more...] about “The Star without a Name”
“Show People”
Show PeoplePaul WeitzDragon TheatreA play being acted for us that is also a play where our actors are actors acting for themselves. Sound confusing? Actually, in Paul Weitz’s well-crafted Show People, there is less confusion than fun for us as audience as the actors themselves become increasingly confused and perplexed in all their mixed-up roles of stage and … [Read more...] about “Show People”
“The Libation Bearers”
The Libation BearersAeschylusDragon Productions TheatreWhile The Libation Bearers is one of the earliest full dramas ever performed (458 BCE, as part of the trilogy The Oresteia), its center theme of violence begetting violence as a vicious, unending circle still unfortunately resounds and describes what we see all too often two and half centuries later. This is the … [Read more...] about “The Libation Bearers”
