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Category: Theatre Reviews
REVIEW: New play “The Champion” at TheatreSquared offers look at past and future through a tale about Nina Simone
As Nina Simone’s star reignites, we learn her message, which still resonates more than 55 years later.
REVIEW: Classic Broadway musical examines traditions and cultural change
As often as things repeat themselves, there is always change afoot.
REVIEW: TheatreSquared’s production of ‘Fun Home’ journeys to the recent past to find modern meaning
TheatreSquared’s production of Fun Home is one of the most totally engrossing new theatrical works I’ve watched in recent years.
REVIEW: TheatreSquared’s production of French farce speaks in any language
You’d have to be a real dingdong not to laugh at some of the innocent crudity of “The Dingdong.”
REVIEW: Complicated relationships provide the curiosities in “The Curious Incident” at the WAC
How does anyone stage a play about complicated relationships, a disorder on the autism spectrum and patience, with a dash of mathematics thrown in for good measure?
REVIEW: Intimate moments make for compelling drama in TheatreSquared’s new offering “Intimate Apparel”
TheatreSquared’s latest performance does indeed have us look at intimate moments, and the vulnerabilities – for better and for worse – when we choose to disclose them.
REVIEW: Surburbia’s secrets exposed in the messy play “Detroit” at TheatreSquared
We may never make it to “Detroit,” or anywhere, unless we know our problems and confront them. And, let’s face it, we’ve all got problems. Even when everything looks in order.
REVIEW: Book of Mormon says ‘Hello’ to newly renovated Walton Arts Center with riotous production
There’s certainly value in a good laugh, and there’s hope for the future. This is only the first big Broadway show in the Walton Arts Center’s new era. I believe I’m excited for more.
REVIEW: TheatreSquared has ‘Great Expectations’ for new production onstage through Jan. 1
Great Expectations, as produced by T2, finds its source material in Charles Dickens’ much talked about and much loved 1861 novel.
REVIEW: Political ambiguity makes for clearly entertaining drama of TheatreSquared’s “All the Way”
The play is about many things, but key to the plot is the passage of the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and the lasting effects of the political allegiances that formed in support or opposition of that bill.
REVIEW: TheatreSquared’s production of ‘Murder for Two’ features actors who are triple threats
At times, it’s doubled-over-in-your-seat funny. At other times, it’s merely entertaining, and that’s okay, too. It’s almost – and I do mean almost – too silly for its own good.
REVIEW: Walton Arts Center covers love and loss courtesy of Broadway musical “The Bridges of Madison County”
The path we walk down may be pretty, and it may even have a picturesque covering. But the thing about bridges is they take us to the other side.
REVIEW: TheatreSquared’s heady “Rapture, Blister, Burn” ponders life’s messy “what ifs”
It’s a play about yearning for a different future, and also about complicated things like mothers and daughters, alcohol dependency, feminism, academia, pornography and the definition of a family.
REVIEW: Fault has its cracks but showcases best parts of Northwest Arkansas, too
A brand new work by TheatreSquared resident playwright Robert Ford takes us to a place Northwest Arkansans know well.