Murphy's play has charming concern for hopelessly loveless
It may often be said, after our luck has been weathered and expectations have settled that a marginal effort and a touch of kindness can go a long ...
July 18, 2023
by Kevin Phoenix
One flew over the chicken coop
A beguiling time has swooped by from the skies, as one play flew over the chicken coop at the Irish Arts Center this weekend, from April 28-30, in ...
May 04, 2023
by Kevin Phoenix
Errico on reading 'letters only, real words real people wrote'
In the days of digitized indifference and superficial screens, it remains no mystery why the handwritten note is the unrivaled message of the heart...
April 22, 2023
by Kevin Phoenix
Search for connection after loss
Pillow talk has never felt quite so clinical, or revealing, than in the U.S. premiere of “Conversations After Sex,” a one act as explicit as the na...
March 02, 2023
by Kevin Phoenix
Making jest of remnants of life
On the chessboard the rules go that when a checkmate is made, the players cease their play, not for want to try, but in seeing the endgame lose the...
February 07, 2023
by Kevin Phoenix
Need, greed in nation's gold rush
In fair weather times, the American is picturesque: honest, hardworking and merited; we love thy neighbor, united we stand. Yet when days become di...
January 31, 2023
by Kevin Phoenix
Montrous fun on stormy evening
As the Origin’s 1st Irish Festival draws near to another end, the thrilling spectacle of this year’s chilling season has been the sight of live the...
January 24, 2023
by Kevin Phoenix
Life, marriage at the crossroads
At the halfway stage of the 2023 1st Irish Festival, Fishamble Theatre Company returns from on high to present the U.S. premiere of Eugene O’Brien’...
January 20, 2023
by Kevin Phoenix
Dylan Thomas's Christmas classic awakens child within
With a joyous jingle of bells, the Irish Repertory Theatre entreats us to merrily remember a festive refrain: it’s Christmastime in the City. A qua...
December 14, 2022
by Kevin Phoenix
Generation gap apparent at St. Ann's Warehouse
It is a disconcerting feeling to be reminded that progress hasn’t been made; when we’ve taken one great step back, that the politics behind our art...
November 29, 2022
by Kevin Phoenix
Should the doctor prescribe fact or fiction?
In 1962, President John F. Kennedy declared in a speech at Yale that “the greatest enemy of truth is very often not the lie—deliberate, contrived, ...
November 09, 2022
by Kevin Phoenix
'Platonov' adapation taps deep into collective psyche
It takes the derisive and cynical mind to express the thought that all order must collapse, and that the indulgence of our dreams are destined to c...
October 24, 2022
by Kevin Phoenix