Dennis Creaghan and Chris Oden in Freud’s Last Session.(Photo by Alicia Donelan)By Hap ErsteinWith Freud’s Last Session, playwright Mark St. Germain follows a simple formula for success -- put two compelling characters with differing viewpoints onstage, then stay out of their way and let them speak.In this case, the characters are two towering thinkers of the … [Read more...]
Theater review: Mosaic’s ‘Dying City’ a gripping, vital two-hander
Erin Joy Schmidt and Ricky Waugh in Dying City.(Photo by George Schiavone)By Hap Erstein Talk about switching gears. After planning to produce the entertaining, but empty British farce Boeing-Boeing, Plantation’s Mosaic Theatre abruptly changed course to present instead Christopher Shinn’s shifting, shifty contemporary drama, Dying City.It was a smart move for … [Read more...]