Articles tagged with: Chris Hainsworth
Theater 2015-16: Lifeline plots two comedies, with a gritty digression to ‘Midnight Cowboy’
12th in a series of season previews
In a compressed ‘Tale of Two Cities,’ Lifeline touches the heart of sacrifice in time of chaos
Review: It’s a good trick, reducing an epic – and I might add really famous – novel like Dickens’ “A Tale of Two Cities” to two hours’ worth of narrative and dialogue, and yet preserving the psychological and dramatic dimensions that make the story compelling. Credit Lifeline Theatre with doing just that. ★★★
Theater 2013-14: The few, the proud (actors) will fight and fight again in Lifeline war zones
Sixth in a series of season previews: Lifeline Theatre’s 2013-14 season, bannered as “War and Redemption,” will be played out on large canvases indeed – with opening salvos from the Civil War and the French Revolution. The season boasts two world premiere adaptations and a major component of staged tumult.
‘The Three Musketeers’ at Lifeline: Acrobatics meet melodrama in a one-for-all free-for-all
Review: If Alexandre Dumas’ historical novel “The Three Musketeers” is a romantic adventure of epic proportions, Lifeline Theatre’s adaptation for the stage is a busy amusement, a shrunken likeness that has its appealing features but falls well short of capturing either the bravura spirit or the inherent drama of the original. ★★
‘The City & The City’: Politics, murder occupy the same space in a surreal thriller at Lifeline
Review: ★★★
The New Season: Adaptable Lifeline Theatre reshapes three novels into stage premieres
Ninth in a series of season previews: In a sense, Lifeline Theatre’s 30th anniversary season will be a year like any other year. The difference with Lifeline is that business as usual means a full slate of world premieres.
As German bombardment strands Leningrad, political fear feeds desperation in ‘Hunger’
Portrait of duress at Lifeline. 4 stars!
