Skip to main content

Tristan Claxton

int(0)
/By / Mar 26, 2024
SHARE

Brock Poirier
WRITTEN BY

Brock Poirier

LEARN MORE

Comments

life of pi iPhoto caption: Photo by Johan Persson.

REVIEW: Life of Pi gleams with unforgettable puppets

Based on the beloved novel by Yann Martel, the exquisite touring production uses puppets as its vocabulary, asking complex questions about storytelling and the power of imagination.

By Aisling Murphy
infinite life iPhoto caption: Photo by Elana Emer.

REVIEW: Infinite Life thrums with meditations on chronic illness and pain

Director Jackie Maxwell’s production at Coal Mine Theatre, featuring six generous, empathetic performances, is a paean of understanding for the chronically ill, candidly examining the despair and fury of bodily helplessness in a way that’s magnified by our proximity to the characters in the intimate space.

By Ilana Lucas
rosmersholm iPhoto caption: Photo by Dahlia Katz.

REVIEW: In Rosmersholm, ghosts abound

While the play’s ideas sizzle and pop with contemporary verve, the story’s an occasionally frustrating vessel for those captivating sentiments on politics and identity.

By Aisling Murphy
iPhoto caption: Festival image of Jessica Zepeda by Ana Higuera, poster design Victor Terzis

Aluna Theatre drops 2024 RUTAS Festival lineup

The festival showcases a lineup of interdisciplinary talent from across the Americas, with programming connected around the theme of “personal cartographies.”

By Liam Donovan
iPhoto caption: Photo by Dahlia Katz

REVIEW: 1s1 Theatre’s Qalb marries autobiography with ASL poetry

Since much of Qalb is about distance — between mind and heart, justice and reality, me and you — it’s a powerful statement of hope to conclude with the bridging of a gap.

By Liam Donovan
year of magical thinking iPhoto caption: Rehearsal photos from The Year of Magical Thinking courtesy of County Roads Theatre Company.

Joan Didion adaptation to play Prince Edward County this fall

This month, County Roads Theatre Company will present The Year of Magical Thinking, a solo show based on the Joan Didion memoir of the same name.

By Aisling Murphy