Author: Robert McDowell

The Justice Theater Project’s current production of Brian Friel’s memory play Dancing at Lughnasa isn’t exactly lame, but it isn’t as light and lively on its feet as it should be. Given the parade of...

Dame Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Nile (1946), the second vintage whodunit of University Theatre at N.C. State’s three-play TheatreFest 2010 summer season, is a promising production that had not quite gelled by...

The Member of the Wedding, Carson McCullers’ 1950 stage adaptation of her own 1946 coming-of-age novel, opened on Jan. 5, 1950 on Broadway, where it played 501 performances and won the 1950 New York Drama Critics’...

The Theater of the American South’s presentation of Concord, Virginia, written and performed by Peter Neofotis, is a splendid piece of storytelling, featuring “The Heiress” and “The Ancients,” two...

Cleverly conceived and adapted for the stage by Ernest Zulia, with breezy music and lyrics by David Caldwell, the musical-comedy version of Robert Fulghum’s 1988 best-seller All I Really Need to Know I Learned in...