Venus in Fur
There’s nothing as humiliating as a cattle call. Unless it’s a cattle call in your undies.
Tag: Orlando Shakes
Boulevard of Bold Dreams
Orlando Shakes presents Boulevard of Bold Dreams, a behind-the-scenes account of the racism and inequality surrounding actress Hattie McDaniel’s 1940 Oscar award.
Million Dollar Quartet
Return to that magical night in 1956 when five of the top rock and rollers met up at Sun Records for the very last time. Carl F. Gauze reviews Million Dollar Quartet at Orlando Shakes.
Henry V
Blood, guts, and kicking butt in France — it’s the age-old story of Shakespeare. Carl F. Gauze once again enjoys the salacious violence and complicated plot points of Henry V, in the moody dark of Orlando Shakes.
Henry IV, Part 1
The War of the Roses spills out across this stage with gags and battles galore.
The Three Musketeers
Nonstop action from sword fights to ring kissing gives us an action packed evening a rollicking fun!
Becoming Doctor Ruth
A one woman show relating the fascinating history of Dr Ruth Westheimer, America’s favorite sex advisor.
Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley
The Little Woman have all grown up and now deal with grown-up issues like marriage and spinsterhood, and how wonderful owning a Proper English Estate might be.
Macbeth
The “Play That Must Not Be Mentioned “ appears in all its mystery and ambiguity.
Richard the Second
Just because you’re king doesn’t mean everything you do and say is wise.
Gertrude and Claudius
Before Hamlet had his run in with a bad fencing experience, there was some high level hanky panky. Here are the juicy details…
Hamlet
A young prince returns from college to discover both he and his widowed mother are screwed.
A Doll’s House, Part 2
After 15 years of separation, Nora returns to her husband to beg for the legal divorces that will allow her to survive.
A Christmas Carol
Ebenezer gets the capitalism scared out of him in this holiday classic.
The Mystery of Irma Vep – A Penny Dreadful
Two men play 8 characters, and a staff of stage hand ghosts build a campy comedy of British faded nobility banished to the moorlands for the crimes of poverty and aristocracy.
In the Heights
The residents of impoverished Washington heights live, love, and struggle to get ahead in the middle of a blistering summer.
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