Balakrishnan

See it if You like off the wall, clever, funny evening of music and story telling by a charming trombonist/raconteur.

Don't see it if You need your theatrical evenings to be driven by plot and characters

See it if you like wonderful acting in a play dealing with black experience over a century, in a deeply humanistic way. Mr. Nicholson is a star

Don't see it if can't think of any reasons you shouldn't see it

See it if you're a Kafka fan, like great acting

Don't see it if you need dramatic direction and motion, the story to go somewhere

Also The problem with the show was, for me, that all the staging with feathers and wireframe props didn't seem necessary and in fact distracting. Staged just as a monologue would have been better.... Read more Read less

See it if you like a moving treatment of how social customs and religious belief run headlong into the reality of human love, like great acting

Don't see it if you're a conservative evangelical Christian who is uncomfortable with how faith can lead to tragedy

See it if you like Gogol, shows that skewer corruption, stupidity and cupidity.

Don't see it if you don't like broad acting, jokes that sometimes seem too easily earned

See it if you like clever scripts and staging of sprawling stories, good acting, amusing lines

Don't see it if you don't want to risk potentially self-defeating edginess, jokes may fall flat, over-the-top acting.

See it if you want to encourage a playwright with some potential

Don't see it if you expect a high ratio of pleasure to so-so moments during a longish evening

See it if Good authorial intentions, occasionally good acting, especially by the script playing Sacco.

Don't see it if Flabby writing, badly needs a sharp editor; confusing; unpersuasive characters; poor acting by the actress playing animal control officer.

See it if you like some good acting, good writing, don't mind cliched love-triangle themes

Don't see it if you mind slow-moving play on themes that have been ploughed over many times

See it if you like shows that show that gay relationships are just as complicated, messed up, insecurity-driven as hetero ones

Don't see it if you're looking for complex plots, melodrama, etc.

See it if you like great acting -- Jayasundera is superb in her multiple roles. Simple and universal theme: revenge and forgiveness.

Don't see it if You mind chronologically confusing production that depends a bit too much on theatrical razamatazz.,

See it if you enjoy updated classics, nice acting by a mix of amateur and equity actors, good script and an interesting human story.

Don't see it if you don't enjoy stories about a culture far away in space and time, the necessary limitations on a community-theater production.

See it if you like Shakespeare, good to great acting, performance where serious parts are done seriously and comic parts are done comically

Don't see it if you don't like Shakespeare without period costumes, casting an actress as Prince Hal with unconvincing rationale (given that, she's good).

See it if Bravura acting, great set design. Loved the conceit of translating the Ancient Mariner to stage in this way.

Don't see it if you want a story line, plotting, etc.

See it if you don't mind a well-intentioned but poorly executed show where many lines are delivered in a hard-to-follow accent

Don't see it if you do mind a well-intentioned but poorly executed show where many lines are delivered in a hard-to-follow accent

See it if you like quirky, confessional, cringe-inducing shows with a core of sweetness

Don't see it if you are the father or the mother of the performer.