All posts by Kate Wingfield
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‘Girls Don’t Cry’ Review: Reel Affirmations 2023
A gentle, somewhat predictable road trip/coming-of-age-and-out story that is more cute than memorable.
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‘Our Son’ Review: Reel Affirmations 2023
Watching 'Our Son' is like dealing with a bouncer: you can see there's something important happening but can't get past the bulk in the way.
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‘Luise’ Review: Reel Affirmations 2023
Like all great filmmaking, 'Luise' all great filmmaking shows rather than tells, and the effect comes like the rumbling of distant thunder.
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‘Radio Golf’ Review: The Price of Success
The late August Wilson's "Radio Golf" closed out his celebrated Century Cycle with a stark, urgent drama set in 1997.
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‘Hurricane Diane’ Review: Suburban Bacchanal
Avant Bard brings Madeleine George’s deviously clever, funny, and ultimately humanity-damning play to uproariously roaring life.
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WNO’s ‘La bohème’ Review: The Crying Game
Swooningly melodic and accessible, the Washington National Opera's 'La bohème' is a reliable tear-jerker.
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‘Jennifer Who is Leaving’ Review: Life on Earth
'Jennifer Who Is Leaving' is a refreshing reminder that not all great theater has to break transgressive ground or shock.
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‘The Nosebleed’ Review: Family Ties
Aya Ogawa's The 'Nosebleed' is intelligent and amusing, but it leaves little space for its more compelling themes.
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‘King Lear’ Review: Troubled King
Despite Patrick Page's pulsar-like charisma in the titular role, 'King Lear' never quite comes together in a satisfying whole.
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‘Beauty and the Beast’ Review: Beast Masters
Synetic Theater's "Beauty and the Beast" is a wondrously entertaining fairy tale brought to extraordinary life.
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‘Jane Anger’ Review: Anger Mismanagement
Despite two uproarious turns from Michael Urie and Ryan Spahn, Talene Monahon's Jane Anger misses its feminist mark.
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‘The Tempest’ Review: Magic Island
It's hard to imagine a better version of "The Tempest" than this production that positively vibrates with talent.
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‘Much Ado About Nothing’ Review: Anchors Away
Simon Godwin makes the most of the machinations of a TV news show to tell Shakespeare's comic tale of mismatched romance.
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Synetic ‘Dracula’ Review: You’re So Vein
Synetic's “Dracula” features powerful doses of murderous gothic mayhem, witty humor, and a touch of the erotic.
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Reel Affirmations Review: ‘Prognosis: Notes on Living’
'Prognosis' is a powerful documentary following filmmaker Debra Chasnoff in her two-year battle with a cancer that ends her life.
