Timing is everything in comedy. The marks have to be hit just right or the jokes fall flat. Case in point: Jobsite Theatre's production of Steve Martin's "Picasso at the Lapin Agile" often misses the beat. It's just not that funny. Jobsite and director Kari Goetz can't take all the blame, though. Martin killed a lot of laughs trying too hard to be a smart guy. ...more

January 11, 2009

Watching Caryl Churchill's adaptation of "A Dream Play" by August Strindberg is like witnessing an exercise in free association. Most of the time, nothing makes sense. But once in a while, in the rambling chaos, you grasp a nugget that brings everything into focus. ...more

June 14, 2008

In his preface to "A Dream Play," a surreal drama about a goddess who descends to Earth to observe the human condition, August Strindberg wrote, "Everything can happen, everything is possible and probable. Time and place do not exist." ...more

June 8, 2008

Jobsite Theater has evoked the world of Edward Gorey for its 2007-08 season opener - traditionally creepy-crawly for Halloween - and what a delightfully wicked world it is. ...more

October 23, 2007

Jobsite Theater has evoked the world of Edward Gorey for its 2007-08 season opener — traditionally creepy-crawly for Halloween — and what a delightfully wicked world it is. ...more

October 22, 2007