By Ilana Jael If you’re looking to kick off your Halloween season early this year with some horror-inspired theatregoing, then you need look no further than Carrie: The Musical. In case you didn’t guess it from the title, yes, the show is an adaptation of that Carrie — Stephen King’s 1974 horror novel about an isolated teenage girl who uses telekinetic powers to take bloody … [Read more...]
‘The Monkey’ proves to be all blood, no guts
Hal Shelburn has a monkey on his back. Not an actual monkey, mind you, but one of those grinning, wind-up, midcentury percussion-playing simians that, outside of the jaundiced world of supernatural fiction, may only be the culprit for violating a noise ordinance or two. But in writer-director Osgood Perkins’ The Monkey, death follows every thwack of the snare. Hal, played by … [Read more...]