dark comedy

– By Cate Marquis – Bucking the trend of musicals and light comedy that summer seems to bring, New Jewish Theater’s “God of Carnage” offers drama and darker humor as two sets of parents meet to discuss an incident of schoolyard violence between two boys. What starts out as a cool-headed and reasonable discussion between…

– By Cate Marquis – Joe Hanrahan delivers a riveting performance in “St. Nicholas,” playwright Conor McPherson’s dark comedy about a jaded Irish theater critic who follows a beautiful young actress to London and falls in with a group of vampires. The one-man play is having a limited run at the Greenfinch Theater and Dive…

(L-R) Gary Glasgow as Ishaq and Chuck Winning as Zeblyan, in NJT’s “Two Jews Walk Into A War…” Courtesy of New Jewish Theatre “Two Jews Walk Into A War…” sounds like the start of a old joke and indeed there is plenty of humor in this bitingly funny play at the New Jewish Theater, but…

– By Cate Marquis – The Repertory Theater of St. Louis re-launches its beloved Studio series, now the Steve Woolf Studio Series, in their lower-level, black-box Emerson Studio space, with a winning firecracker of a play, “The Roommate.” This two-person play puts two women who couldn’t be more different together as roommates in a large…