Opening the Curtain

If amidst our summer heat, you're looking for a chance to watch someone else sweat it out for a while and you're willing to go on some philosophical tangents - there's some powerful acting happening at the bottom of a pool at the Rogue Machine Theater.

While you might have a tough time traversing the play's worlds, the actors in "The Brothers Size" embody the characters so completely that you are with them every step of the way.

This week a conversation with Tim Wright, Artistic Director of Circle X, half of the co-production with Boston Court of "Stupid Fucking Bird" playing through August 10th in Pasadena.

Okay, stop what you're doing . . . and go get tickets for the production of "Stupid Fucking Bird" at the Theatre at Boston Court.

This week Anthony wants to talk about the Tony Awards.

Anthony really wants to celebrate Stoneface: The Rise and Fall of Buster Keaton, but while it captures the details of Keaton's life, it does little to illuminate his soul.

Grab a couple of friends, pick a couple of Fringe shows within walking distance of a good bar and roll the dice on a night of quirky theater.

Mickey Birnbaum’s Backyard wrestles with the sagas of good and evil we all tell -- in bouts that are simultaneously sexual, primal, bloody, and darkly, darkly funny.

Playwright Steven Drukman's Death of the Author combines postmodern literary theory, the power dynamics of the classroom and an ethics seminar on intention.

There's Zankou Chicken falling from the ceiling, there's sex after a car crash, there's Cafe Tropical, continual comparisons to New York, liposuction...