Oracle Productions, in collaboration with Kristiana Rae Colón and Tara Branham, present the world premiere of GOOD FRIDAY. Oracle inaugurates its new space with an explosive, thought-provoking drama. Playwright Kristiana Rae Colón has penned a complex exploration of women’s responses to trauma. Her story made me an emotional trainwreck. Before the end of the show, the ...
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Theatre with a side of life
Category Oracle Theatre
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Review “Hairy Ape” (Oracle Theatre): Powerhouse Adaptation!
Oracle Theatre presents THE HAIRY APE. Director Monty Cole has masterfully adapted Eugene O’Neill’s play for modern day contemplation. Set in 1922, O’Neill penned a tale about the identity crisis of an Irish laborer shunned by a socialite. Cole cleverly changes the focus from classism to racism by casting 6 black men as the ensemble. The ...
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Review “No Beast so Fierce” (Oracle Theatre): Pretty Fierce!
Oracle Theatre, in conjunction with the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE), presents NO BEAST SO FIERCE. Adapter and Director Max Truax reimagines Shakespeare’s “Richard III” in his newest Oracle production. The first major difference in his innovation is casting Katherine Keberlein in the lead. Although Keberlein is Richard III, she is also a ...
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Review “Circle-Machine” (Oracle Theatre): Imaginative Spectacle
Oracle Theatre presents the world premiere adaptation, CIRCLE-MACHINE. REVIEWERS DISCLAIMER: I, unfortunately, had an obscure vantage point. The show is set up as partial thrust staging. The bulk seats are on either side of the stage. Then there is an odd elevated row along the middle wall in-between. The six seats are recessed and against a ...
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Review “Romulus” (Oracle Theatre): Absurd and Profound
Oracle Theatre presents ROMULUS. The absurd mingles with the profound in Oracle’s current production. The play sets the demise of the Western Rome Empire on and the day after the Ides of March. The original play by Friedrich Durrenmatti and rewritten by Gore Vidal explores the ambition behind political invasions and marital arrangements. The satire blends ...
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Review “The Jungle” (Oracle Theatre): Unique, Blood-Splattering Spectacle
Oracle Theatre presents the world premiere adaptation of THE JUNGLE. Upton Sinclair’s classic novel is a grim reflection of the ugly reality of Chicago stockyards in the early 1900s. Director and adapter Matt Foss actualizes Sinclair’s vision in what can best be described as a unique, blood-splattering spectacle. This show is the epitome of performing arts. ...
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Review “The President” (Oracle Theatre): A Tight, Madcap Romp
Oracle Theatre presents THE PRESIDENT. John Arthur Lewis (Norrison) takes charge in this high energy farce. Lewis plays a corporate mogul tasked with transforming a taxi driver into an ambassador in an hour. Onstage for the entire duration, Lewis fires out his lines and decisions like a semi-automatic machine gun. And his ongoing delivery is deadpan perfection ...