Millennial Notes Dan Hoyle Champions New Investigative Theater, Brilliantly by Beau McGlasson From an early age, we are taught to color inside the lines, but we miss out on an equally important lesson—when to cross over the line. Dan Hoyle’s new one-man show called “Border People” uncovers lives caught outside the lines and in…
Conor McPherson Infuses Down & Out with Poetry & Grace by Jennifer Ann Charron Conor McPherson’s beautiful, award-winning “The Night Alive” steals a glimpse at five broken lives in modern Dublin. Intimately set in the filthy rented room of 50-ish Tommy (superb Anthony Abateʹ), we get an in-your-face look at how far he has…
Millennial Notes Gary Graves Exposes Madness & Moral Responsibility by Rachel Norby In his adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s story, “Ward 6,” director Gary Graves demonstrates the ruinous effects of complacency on a man in charge. Set in late 19th century Russia, Chekhov’s story of a run-down, corrupt hospital sounds like today’s torments of mental…
Millennial Notes Athol Fugard Stuns with Painful Memories by Evelyn Arevalo South African playwright Athol Fugard pieces together a compelling story that examines racism, friendship, and fear at its very core. “Lesson from Aloes,” set in 1963, in apartheid South Africa masterfully explores the realities of the country’s enforced racial separation, using sizzling…