Email Author Amy Nicholson

2008 Stories by Amy Nicholson

• Smokey Joe's Cafe

  published December 18, 2008

  Smokey Joe's Cafe serves up a musical theatrical experience akin to mac ’n’ cheese: warm and agreeable but not enriching. On... More >>

• Perilous!: Penelope Peril vs. The Holiday Orgasm

  published December 11, 2008

  Like defensive friends who must have the last word, on Opening Night, this comedy’s producers and announcer (Tyler Tanner) seemed defiantly... More >>

• The Night Before Christmas

  published December 4, 2008

  It’s a merry Guy Ritchie Christmas for the British louts in Anthony Neilson’s dark, uneven holiday comedy. Security guard Gary (Doug... More >>

• Thyestes' Feast

  published November 20, 2008

  In the very good monologue that opens writer-director Peter Wing Healey's uneven tragedy, the Sun (Bridgette Trahan) argues the primacy of the... More >>

• Song of Extinction

  published November 13, 2008

  E.M. Lewis’ haunting drama unfolds on a set bracketed by shadowboxes filled with butterflies, bells, maps, plants and pictures of Cambodian... More >>

• A Man's a Man

  published November 6, 2008

  In an army brigade, three machine gunners are in immediate need of replacing their fourth, who was recently kidanpped. And so, in Bertolt... More >>

• Tragedy: A Tragedy

  published October 23, 2008

  “Is the sense of tragedy palpable?” presses stately news anchor Frank (Frederick Ponzlov) to infield reporter John (Matthew McCray). If... More >>

• Halo

  published October 23, 2008

  Nately, Nova Scotia — a town too small for a movie theater — has just been blessed with a major tourist attraction: an image of Jesus on... More >>

• A Head of Its Time

  published October 16, 2008

  Linda Lovelace, star of Deep Throat, wrote four autobiographies that muddled, not clarified, her unusual life. In the first two, she was... More >>

• The Women

  published October 16, 2008

  Clare Booth Luce's The Women is thought of first as an expose of female competition among a pack of well-groomed wildcats who claw until they draw... More >>

• All About Walken

  published October 16, 2008

  So these eight Christopher Walken impersonators glide onstage, strutting and yowling and wearing bad wigs. Most are decent Walkens, and the best... More >>

• Armstrong's Kid

  published October 9, 2008

  Stanley Bennett Clay’s drama about guilt, anger and repression centers on a trial stemming from 14-year-old Thaddeus’ (Tory Scroggins)... More >>

• Zappa's Everymusician

  published October 2, 2008

  Joe (Jason Paige) wants to play music. But after a neighbor (Maia Madison) files a noise complaint with the cops on his garage band, Joe and his... More >>

• Ragtime: The Musical

  published September 25, 2008

  “Every race or nation that has ever got upon its feet has done so through struggle and trial and persecution,” declaims Booker T.... More >>

• The Caucus Race

  published September 18, 2008

  In Ian M. McDonald’s absurdist comedy, eight strangers wake up on the 50th floor of a high-rise with no escape. Sounds like the first episode... More >>

• An Italian Straw Hat: A Vaudeville

  published September 18, 2008

  Lyricist John Strand and composer Dennis McCarthy's new musical opens with the cast singing "God save your hat!" — an ode to an outmoded... More >>

• Rose's Dilemma

  published September 11, 2008

  “I told you to get rid of the sun!” barks author Rose Steiner (Margaret McCarley) to her caretaker, Arlene (Elizabeth Gordon), as part... More >>

• You Will Most Likely Die

  published August 28, 2008

  When not romping through whirlwind comedy nights, the three-man, two-woman sketch group Dynamite Kablammo have been marshaling video hits online... More >>

• The Heist Show: A Thrance Caper

  published August 7, 2008

  This slight dance comedy set in a stark, noir cityscape opens with an attempted Grand Theft Auto that evolves into a Keystone Cops kick line as... More >>

• Mrs. Warren's Profession

  published August 7, 2008

  Banned and reviled, George Bernard Shaw’s 1893 satire about a modern Victorian girl, Vivie (Joanna Strapp), who discovers that her estranged... More >>

• Long Day's Journey Into Night

  published July 31, 2008

  “We don’t seem to be able to avoid unpleasant topics,” sighs Edmund Tyrone (Aaron Hendry) to his father, James (William Dennis... More >>

• All About Walken: The Impersonators of Christopher Walken

  published July 24, 2008

  So these eight Christopher Walken impersonators glide onstage, strutting and yowling and wearing bad wigs. Most are decent Walkens, and the best... More >>

• I Stand Before You Naked

  published July 17, 2008

  The peril of Joyce Carol Oates’ collection of soul-bearing female monologues is that her mordant feminism teeters on disempowerment —... More >>

• Herpes Tonight!

  published July 3, 2008

  Solo performer Corey Moosa's identity is forged by two things: pop culture and his herpes diagnosis. He swirls them together here, renaming herpes... More >>

• The Impostor

  published June 19, 2008

  “In Mexico, one starts from the beginning every day,” explains Cesar (Luis Avalos), a poor history professor, to his wife (Blanca... More >>