Kerry Reid

Molly Bloom has come unstuck in time. All right, not the real Molly Bloom. She's fictional, after all. But in Steven Dietz's 2015 time-travel romance, "Bloomsday," James Joyce's heroine is...

Obsessive-compulsive disorder and comedy aren't strangers to each other, as fans of Tony Shalhoub's "Monk" can attest. But comedian and solo performer Adam Strauss's detective work takes him deep into...

In the early years of this century, Tom Dudzick's meat-and-potatoes (or should that be "kielbasa-and-cabbage?") nostalgic comedy "Over the Tavern," about a Polish-Catholic working-class family in 1950s Buffalo, got a...

Small towns afraid of dancing and alternative lifestyles (such as ... enjoying dancing, I guess) have provided a fair amount of fodder for musicals. "The Prom," the sweet-and-snarky musical comedy...

Kate Fodor set the stakes high in her first play, 2003's "Hannah and Martin," which debuted at TimeLine Theatre (and enjoyed a reprise with them the following season). By putting...

Many years ago, I had the privilege of watching theater artist and activist Rhodessa Jones work with incarcerated women through her Medea Project in San Francisco. The women’s stories, which...

In Season 3 of NBC’s afterlife comedy, “The Good Place,” the quartet of humans who’ve dubbed themselves “The Soul Squad” find out (spoiler alert!) that getting into heaven has become...

The terrorist murders at the mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand cast an understandable pall Friday night at the opening of Silk Road Rising’s latest offering. But Karim Nagi’s spirited solo...

Longtime patrons of Black Ensemble Theater are probably familiar with the post-curtain speech sometimes heard there. “Going to Black Ensemble is just like going to church — because there’s a...