Author Archive
James P. Davis
- March 22, 2005
No shame in your liberal arts game
If there's one question I could do without hearing ever again, it would be "What are you planning on doing with that?" Liberal arts majors, you know what I'm talking about: the suspicious inquiry...
- March 10, 2005
Alley molds masterpiece into perfection
Jennifer Cherry (right) stars as the Abigail Williams in the Alley Theatre's production of The Crucible. The story compares the anti-communist paranoia during the Cold War to the hysteria caused in the Salem witch...
- February 10, 2005
‘Polish’ pushes ethnic slurs to a new high
Polish Joke explores ethnic humor through the life of Jasiu Sadlowski (John R. Johnston), a Polish man who tries to hide his nationality in order to avoid the slurs that come along with his...
- January 27, 2005
Alley succeeds with Miller’s obscure ‘Fall’
Arthur Miller's play After the Fall is currently running at the Alley Theatre until Feb. 6. In the play, the characters Quentin (James Black) and Maggie (Elizabeth Heflin) demonstrate Miller's feelings on his relationship...
- October 11, 2004
Audience lost by decisions made in ‘Room’
The seriocomic tone of Scott McPherson's Marvin's Room is difficult to capture onstage. Its dark humor underscores its very serious themes of self-sacrifice and family dysfunction, and practically every scene contains both hilarious and...