KXT on Broadway, December 13 6.5/10 There’s no flashback as delightfully disorienting as an unreliable one. Trent Foo uses the device repeatedly in his debut play. The spiral of realities is made all the giddier by Foo’s also playing the protagonist Heepa, so Foo’s character is arguing about the veracity…
Category: Theatre Reviews
Theatre Royal, December 4 6/10 I wracked my remaining brains on the way home, wondering what other musical made the songs its dull parts. Usually, of course, they’re the main event. Not in Pretty Woman: The Musical. Here, the show’s humming along rather enjoyably, and then when they start to…
Ensemble Theatre, December 3 7/10 Without the sharp editing available to a film-maker, on-stage thrillers tend to gurgle down the drain of melodrama. The wonder of this production of Dial M for Murder is that avoids that grisly end. Just. Alfred Hitchcock took Frederick Knott’s original play, and turned it…