Have you ever been so enraged that you’ve almost lost it? I’m talking the kind of red-hot rage that creeps behind the eyes, makes you tense and sweaty, brings you right up to the boiling point. You’re at the knife’s edge. If you act on this anger, there will be consequences. Life, as you know… Read More Strong Performances Elevate Pegasus’s ‘If You Split a Second’
A girl (Cruz Gonzalez-Cadel) begins a fantastical (and fatal) journey in Mortar Theatre Company’s “Corazón de Manzana.” Photo credit: John W. Sisson, Jr. Dana Lynn Formby’s highly ambitious new play, Corazón de Manzana, examines the femicide crisis in Juárez, Mexico through the lives of three mother/daughter relationships: a passionate young girl and her single working… Read More Mortar’s bold ‘Corazón de Manzana’ brings fantasy to a gruesome reality
Up-and-coming playwright Dana Lynn Formby is never not writing. In fact, following this interview (which traveled from an Argo Tea in the loop to a local bar in our Edgewater neighborhood) she had to rush home to put the final touches on a screenplay draft due the next day. Her brain is like a story-generating… Read More Exploring the femicide crisis in Juárez, Mexico: an interview with playwright Dana Lynn Formby
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